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SubjectRe: [git pull] drm for 6.8
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On 1/24/2024 11:52, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> On 1/24/2024 11:51, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Linus, if you have a minute, I'd really like to know...
>>
>> On 24.01.24 17:41, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>>> On 1/24/2024 10:24, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>>> On 1/24/24 16:31, Donald Carr wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 7:06 AM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> When testing the rc1 on my openSUSE Tumbleweed desktop, I've started
>>>>>> experiencing "frozen desktop" (KDE/Wayland) issues. The symptoms are
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> everything freezes including mouse cursor. After a while it either
>>>>>> resolves,
>>>>>> or e.g. firefox crashes (if it was actively used when it froze) or
>>>>>> it's
>>>>>> frozen for too long and I reboot with alt-sysrq-b. When it's frozen
>>>>>> I can
>>>>>> still ssh to the machine, and there's nothing happening in dmesg.
>>>>>> The machine is based on Amd Ryzen 7 2700 and Radeon RX7600.
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> I am experiencing the exact same symptoms;
>>>>
>>>> Big thanks to Thorsten who suggested I look at the following:
>>>>
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240123021155.2775-1-mario.limonciello@amd.com/
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CABXGCsM2VLs489CH-vF-1539-s3in37=bwuOWtoeeE+q26zE+Q@mail.gmail.com/
>>>>
>>>> Instead of further bisection I've applied Mario's revert from the
>>>> first link
>>>> on top of 6.8-rc1 and the issue seems gone for me now.
>>>
>>> Thanks for confirming.  I don't think we should jump right to the revert
>>> right now.
>>>
>>>    I posted it in case that is the direction we need to go
>>> (simple git revert didn't work due to contextual changes).
>>>
>>> Let's give the folks who work on GPU scheduler some time to understand
>>> the failure and see if they can fix it.
>>
>> ...how you think about this and other situations like this. Given that
>> we have
>>
>> * two affected people in this thread
>> * one earlier thread about it
>> * the machine that made Mario write the patch
>> * and I have someone in #fedora-kernel that likely is affected as well
>>
>> it seems that this is not some corner case very few people run into.
>> Hence I tend to say that this should be dealt with rather sooner than
>> later. Maybe before rc2? Or is this asking too much?
>>
>> The thing from my point of view is, that each such problem might
>> discourage testers from testing again or lead to thoughts like "I only
>> start testing after -rc4". Not to mention that other people will try to
>> bisect the problem like Vlastimil did, which will cost them quite some
>> time and effort -- only to find out that we known about the problem
>> already and did not quickly fix it. That is discouraging for them as
>> well and thus bad for field testing I'd assume.
>>
>> Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
>> --
>> Everything you wanna know about Linux kernel regression tracking:
>> https://linux-regtracking.leemhuis.info/about/#tldr
>> If I did something stupid, please tell me, as explained on that page.
>
> A test patch was just posted.  I haven't gotten a chance to try it yet.
> I will this afternoon.

The test patch [1] posted to [2] works for me. I expect that Matthew
will post it to dri-devel and this can catch RC2 or RC3.

[1]
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/uploads/ca8dfaa22d6f5d247c28acf6cf3eafd2/0001-Drain-all-entities-in-DRM-run-jon-worker.patch
[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3124


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