Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:54:20 -0700 | From | "Bret Towe" <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.23-rc1 regression: mm: fix fault vs invalidate race for linear mappings |
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On 7/24/07, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > 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?
you mean the drivers ati releases? no its all open source drivers I didn't think ati release powerpc versions of their drivers? not that id use them ether way
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