Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:44:42 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.23-rc1 regression: mm: fix fault vs invalidate race for linear mappings |
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Bret Towe wrote: > for a while in -git I've had an issue that on boot when gdm loads the > screen stays black > using ctrl-f1 doesn't return to a console and killing X doesn't help any > ssh'ing into the box does work top only shows 100% io-wait > dmesg shows nothing odd > > the work around I have is at the moment is to just move the radeon drm > module > out of the way so it doesn't load on boot and X works just fine like that > I did some bisecting which took a few days and tracked it down to > commit d00806b183152af6d24f46f0c33f14162ca1262a > > its way to complex for me to revert it on top of -rc1 to verify that's > the issue tho > I keep forgetting to get a trace of what its waiting on when I'm in that > kernel > I assume that would be of use and Ill get that later > > the box this is happening on is a g4 mac mini the built in card is a > radeon 9200 > I'm not seeing any issues on an amd64 box with radeon card it's also a > 9600 tho
Is this with a binary-only module? We saw an issue with that in SLES9 where the module is returning a locked page from its nopage handler when it isn't really supposed to. It might be fixed in latest drivers, have you tried them?
Thanks, Nick
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