Re: BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-07 Thread Georgios Amanakis
Thanks for all your efforts. It is really fun to see such an immediate response. Daniel Vetter wrote: >On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 6:24 PM, George Amanakis wrote: >> Indeed, I set explicitly drm_kms_helper.poll=0 since 2.35.x. See here: >> http://souriguha.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/how-to-solve-probl

Re: BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-07 Thread George Amanakis
PM Subject: Re: BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11 Indeed, the commit you've bisected too accidentally removed this check. I'll submit a patch.So I guess you've explicitly set drm_kms_helper.poll=0. Can you please elaborate what you're working around

Re: BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-07 Thread George Amanakis
I mean that I can type, move the mouse pointer, open new windows but there is a lag until these changes are displayed. Stuttering like. I ended up not reverting the aforementioned commit but modifying it. This also solves the issue. Here is the patch: diff -rupN a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_help

BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-06 Thread Georgios Amanakis
Thanks for all your efforts. It is really fun to see such an immediate response. Daniel Vetter wrote: >On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 6:24 PM, George Amanakis >wrote: >> Indeed, I set explicitly drm_kms_helper.poll=0 since 2.35.x. See here: >> http://souriguha.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/how-to-solve-pro

BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-06 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 6:24 PM, George Amanakis wrote: > Indeed, I set explicitly drm_kms_helper.poll=0 since 2.35.x. See here: > http://souriguha.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/how-to-solve-problem-with-thinkpadkslowd-kworker-on-linux-kernel-2-35-2-36/ > > Mouse and keyboard freezes intermittently some

BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-06 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:01 AM, George Amanakis wrote: > I mean that I can type, move the mouse pointer, open new windows but there > is a lag until these changes are displayed. Stuttering like. > > I ended up not reverting the aforementioned commit but modifying it. This > also solves the issue

Re: BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-06 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 6:24 PM, George Amanakis wrote: > Indeed, I set explicitly drm_kms_helper.poll=0 since 2.35.x. See here: > http://souriguha.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/how-to-solve-problem-with-thinkpadkslowd-kworker-on-linux-kernel-2-35-2-36/ > > Mouse and keyboard freezes intermittently some

BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-06 Thread George Amanakis
PM Subject: Re: BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11 Indeed, the commit you've bisected too accidentally removed this check. I'll submit a patch.So I guess you've explicitly set drm_kms_helper.poll=0. Can you please elaborate what you're working around

Re: BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-06 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:01 AM, George Amanakis wrote: > I mean that I can type, move the mouse pointer, open new windows but there > is a lag until these changes are displayed. Stuttering like. > > I ended up not reverting the aforementioned commit but modifying it. This > also solves the issue.

BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-05 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:53 PM, George Amanakis wrote: > Compiled und run the kernel as you instructed. > Although the GPU did hang momentarily the dmesg showed no abnormalities. Can you please explain in more detail what you mean by "did hang momentarily"? If it's a real gpu hang it should be

BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-05 Thread George Amanakis
I mean that I can type, move the mouse pointer, open new windows but there is a lag until these changes are displayed. Stuttering like. I ended up not reverting the aforementioned commit but modifying it. This also solves the issue. Here is the patch: diff -rupN a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_help

Re: BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-05 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:53 PM, George Amanakis wrote: > Compiled und run the kernel as you instructed. > Although the GPU did hang momentarily the dmesg showed no abnormalities. Can you please explain in more detail what you mean by "did hang momentarily"? If it's a real gpu hang it should be

BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-04 Thread Daniel Vetter
Two things: - Please always cc relevant mailing lists when reporting a bug. - With lockdep enabled (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) you should get detailed backtraces and lists of held lock when the kworker gets stuck. Can you please reproduce with that option enabled and then attach the dmesg? Thanks, Dani

BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-04 Thread George Amanakis
Compiled und run the kernel as you instructed. Although the GPU did hang momentarily the dmesg showed no abnormalities. dmesg: [??? 0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [??? 0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [??? 0.00] Linux version 3.8.4-1-mine (root at x3200) (gcc version 4.7.

Re: BUG: kworker hangs the GPU on drm and i915 since 3.8.x under X11

2013-04-04 Thread Daniel Vetter
Two things: - Please always cc relevant mailing lists when reporting a bug. - With lockdep enabled (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) you should get detailed backtraces and lists of held lock when the kworker gets stuck. Can you please reproduce with that option enabled and then attach the dmesg? Thanks, Dani