Hi! I tried to upgrade my kernel from 3.16 to 3.17-rc2 and I found that my laptop was unable to boot. The boot process hangs after 2-3 seconds (according to timestamps of log messages). The last kernel log line I usually see is the discovery of my touchpad: "input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input11".
I did a git bisect and it pointed me to the following commit: commit 208bf9fdcd3575aa4a5d48b3e0295f7cdaf6fc44 Author: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon Aug 11 13:15:35 2014 +0300 drm/i915: Fix locking for intel_enable_pipe_a() intel_enable_pipe_a() gets called with all the modeset locks already held (by drm_modeset_lock_all()), so trying to grab the same locks using another drm_modeset_acquire_ctx is going to fail miserably. Move most of the drm_modeset_acquire_ctx handling (init/drop/fini) out from intel_{get,release}_load_detect_pipe() into the callers (intel_{crt,tv}_detect()). Only the actual locking and backoff handling is left in intel_get_load_detect_pipe(). And in intel_enable_pipe_a() we just share the mode_config.acquire_ctx from drm_modeset_lock_all() which is already holding all the relevant locks. It's perfectly legal to lock the same ww_mutex multiple times using the same ww_acquire_ctx. drm_modeset_lock() will convert the returned -EALREADY into 0, so the caller doesn't need to do antyhing special. Fixes a hang on resume on my 830. Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@intel.com> I tried booting with the above commit reverted on top of 3.17-rc2 and it booted successfully. I also did a MagicSyrq-W (Display list of blocked (D state) tasks) after the boot process stopped (using plain 3.17-rc2, without reverting the above commit) and it showed that plymouthd was blocked with the following call trace (hand copied): irq_exit common_interrupt schedule_preemt_disabled __mutex_lock_slowpath mutex_lock drm_modeset_lock drm_getconnector drm_mode_getcrttc drm_ioctl ... This may have something to do with the hang or it may not, I don't know but is related to drm locking so I thought it was a good idea to mention it. My laptop is an old Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo M1450g, running Linux Mint 16. Let me know if I can help further debug this issue. Tibor Billes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/