Re: X11 system lockup with 5.11.0 kernel

2021-06-03 Thread Bob Tracy
On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 12:18:58AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 03:15:05PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> >  I have lost track about this issue, so please fill me in as to whether 
> > the offending commit causing the regression has been bisected or not.
> 
> It has.  Michael Cree reported the following back on April 5th:
> 
> And the first bad commit is:
> 
> 0fe3cf3a53b5c1205ec7d321be1185b075dff205 is the first bad commit
> commit 0fe3cf3a53b5c1205ec7d321be1185b075dff205
> Author: Christian König 
> Date:   Sat Oct 24 13:12:23 2020 +0200
> 
> drm/radeon: switch to new allocator v2
> 
> It should be able to handle all cases here.
> 
> v2: fix debugfs as well
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian König 
> Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie 
> Reviewed-by: Madhav Chauhan 
> Tested-by: Huang Rui 
> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/397088/?series=83051=1
> 
> :04 04 4e643ef861b921392bc67be21a42298c91c7ff7a 
> b36453567c3176a3cd50fa0b23886b0fd642560d Mdrivers

There were a few follow-up messages in this thread that left me with the
impression there *may* have been a patch submitted, although Christian
complained at the time he was having problems locating Alpha hardware to
test with.

The current (5.12.0 kernel) problem symptoms show some "improvement".
I at least got to the point that the login screen displayed, but it
had a bit of pixelation/distortion in a few areas indicative of "bad
things about to happen".  Then I got the expected system lock-up,
just as I originally reported: had to hit the reset switch to recover.

--Bob



Re: X11 system lockup with 5.11.0 kernel

2021-06-03 Thread Bob Tracy
On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 03:15:05PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  I have lost track about this issue, so please fill me in as to whether 
> the offending commit causing the regression has been bisected or not.

It has.  Michael Cree reported the following back on April 5th:

And the first bad commit is:

0fe3cf3a53b5c1205ec7d321be1185b075dff205 is the first bad commit
commit 0fe3cf3a53b5c1205ec7d321be1185b075dff205
Author: Christian König 
Date:   Sat Oct 24 13:12:23 2020 +0200

drm/radeon: switch to new allocator v2

It should be able to handle all cases here.

v2: fix debugfs as well

Signed-off-by: Christian König 
Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie 
Reviewed-by: Madhav Chauhan 
Tested-by: Huang Rui 
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/397088/?series=83051=1

:04 04 4e643ef861b921392bc67be21a42298c91c7ff7a 
b36453567c3176a3cd50fa0b23886b0fd642560d M  drivers

--Bob



Re: X11 system lockup with 5.11.0 kernel

2021-06-03 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Wed, 2 Jun 2021, Bob Tracy wrote:

> > We're also supporting everything else that most commercial vendors consider 
> > obsolete
> > such as PA-RISC, M68k, big-endian PowerPC (32 and 64 bits) SPARC and so on, 
> > in case
> > you need testing there.
> 
> (Mostly including the above just as a reference to the most recent
> posting in this thread...)
> 
> As of mainline kernel 5.12.0, the fix I (we) have been waiting for still
> hasn't been included.  My alpha still locks up when X11 starts.
> 
> Stuck at kernel version 5.10.0 for the time being.

 I have lost track about this issue, so please fill me in as to whether 
the offending commit causing the regression has been bisected or not.

  Maciej