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SubjectRe: [Intel-gfx] [Regression] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 12:57:01AM +0300, Andrey Skvortsov wrote:
> On 28 Feb, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 03:20:37PM +0300, Andrey Skvortsov wrote:
> > > Unfortunately this is not the last bug, that breaks i915/drm working
> > > on my laptop. Sometimes system successfully loads with couple warnings mentioned in
> > > previous mail:
> > >
> > > [ 26.922953] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 767 at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c:4525 i915_gem_free_object+0x13f/0x288 [i915]()
> > > [ 26.922954] WARN_ON(obj->frontbuffer_bits)
> >
> > That's inocuous, but for the serious hang, you may want to try
> > video=SVIDEO-1:d on the kernel commandline to workaround the hang. (Check
> > /sys/class/drm/card/ for the actual name of the connector for TV). I
> > think Ville mentioned he was looking/looked at the atomic-vs-load_detect
> > changes that is at the heart of the issue here. (Admittedly he did say
> > it was worthy of a drink or two.)
> > -Chris
>
> Thank you for the help. I've tried to add to the kernel command line
> 'video=card0-SVIDEO-1:d video=card0-VGA-1:d'. But despite of that
> kernel crashes with 'BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
> dereference at' occasionally.

Remove the card0- and combine both into a single video= stanza:
video=SVIDEO-1:d,VGA-1:d
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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