I noticed the same bug in mutter 40, then tried to bisect it and found the same in mutter 3.36. So yeah this appears to be a new kernel (or Mesa) bug. It doesn't seem to happen much if at all if you run gnome- shell. Only in mutter for me.
** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues #1485 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1485 ** Also affects: mutter via https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1485 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: mutter (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid ** Summary changed: - [i915] graphic corruption following orkqueue: PF_MEMALLOC task 131(kswapd0) is flushing !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM events_unbound:active_work [i915] + [i915] Noise-like graphics corruption -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1896091 Title: [i915] Noise-like graphics corruption To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mutter/+bug/1896091/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs