I confirmed this bug on Ubuntu9.04 with the kernel 2.6.28-11.
-Messaggio originale-
Da: boun...@canonical.com per conto di zwaldowski
Inviato: mar 02/06/2009 23.12
A: saxvodaf...@alice.it
Oggetto: [Bug 359392] Re: [i965] X freezes starting on April 3rd
Is the kernel-side fix in 2.6.30? Can it be backported to 2.6.29 or
even 2.6.28 (Jaunty kernel)? How about the actual fixes for X? Can
they be backported?
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[i965] X freezes starting on April 3rd
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Status in X.org xf86-video-intel: Confirmed
Status in compiz source package in Ubuntu: In Progress
Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in compiz in Ubuntu Jaunty: Fix Committed
Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu Jaunty: Confirmed
Status in compiz in Ubuntu Karmic: In Progress
Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu Karmic: Fix Released
Bug description:
[Problem]
Starting around 4/3, when mesa was upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4, several i965 users
started noticing X freeze after several hours of use, triggered by application
usage especially noticeable with (but not unique to) compiz enabled.
[Impact]
The freeze bug affects a subset of i965 based systems, most particularly those
using compiz. Exact numbers cannot be determined, but may be as high as 25-50%
based on rough estimates.
The problem is severe: An unpredictable lockup of the system that
requires a power cycle to recover from. For some users it comes on
within minutes, while for others it comes after a few hours of use.
[How Addressed in Development Version]
For now, the patch being proposed for Jaunty has been uploaded to Karmic.
Longer term, we plan to move from EXA to UXA once the latter is stable
enough. It has been found that while UXA exhibits other kinds of
freezes, we've not yet been able to reproduce this particular freeze
there.
[Patch for Jaunty]
A low-risk workaround that has proven effective at eliminating freezes, or at
least greatly reducing their frequency, is to increase the Virtual framebuffer
size. Some users do this locally as a matter of course to gain dual-head
support, so this setting has received extremely widespread testing already.
The patch for Jaunty causes the Virtual size to be set to 2048x2048 if
it is not otherwise specified. Users can still override this with their
own settings, larger or smaller, as desired.
A side effect of this patch is that it also mitigates bug 158415 to a
degree, which will make projector usage somewhat easier for this
hardware because it will enable X to recognize higher resolutions
available from the external monitor than were available on initial boot.
[Test Case]
The best method found to reproduce the bug is:
a. Enable compiz
b. Set your desktop to a 6x1 workspace layout
c. Run http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25683477/repro.sh
d. System will freeze anywhere from 1-20 min typically
e. Power-button shutdown is required to reset the system
[Regression Potential]
In general, Virtual has been widely and extensively tested, so we do not expect
this patch to trigger regressions.
The patch is coded to only take effect on i965 systems, so the scope of
any regression that might conceivably be triggered will be limited to
just that hardware.
[Suspects]
Omitting obviously trivial, unrelated changes, here are what changed in several
suspect packages in the timeframe in question:
* intel driver:
4/01: 118_drop_legacy3d.patch: Removed Legacy3D
4/03: 114_fix_xv_with_non_gem.patch: Dropped since it caused regression
4/06: 119_drm_bo_unreference_needs_null.patch: Fixes various nullptr derefs
4/08: 120_fix_vt_switch.patch: Fix nullptr deref in video playback
* xserver:
4/08: 177_animated_cursor_change_master.patch: fixes animated cursors
4/06: 174_set_bg_pixmap_of_cow_to_none.patch: Sets bg pixmap of
composite overlay window to None
3/30: 172_cwgetbackingpicture_nullptr_check.patch: fix race condition
when minimzing/maximizing firefox with flash video playing.
* mesa:
4/03: 7.4 released
* Added MESA_GLX_FORCE_DIRECT env var for Xlib/software driver
* GLSL version 1.20 is returnd by the GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION query
* glGetActiveUniform() returned wrong size for some array types
* Fixed some error checking in glUniform()
* Fixed a potential glTexImage('proxy target') segfault
* Fixed bad reference counting for 1D/2D texture arrays
* Fixed VBO + glPush/PopClientAttrib() bug #19835
* Assorted i965 driver bug fixes
* Fixed a Windows compilation failure in s_triangle.c
* Fixed a GLSL array indexing bug
* Fixes for building on Haiku
* linux:
4/04: 2.6.28-11.41: Revert MCHBAR patch
4/02: 2.6.28-11.40: Add MCHBAR patch
* libdrm:
4/04: 02_libdrm_nouveau_update.patch: Only affects nouveau code
3/29: libdrm-nouveau1.symbols: Probably
