Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757197AbaDXNhf (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:37:35 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:52247 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757334AbaDXNgx (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:36:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:36:52 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Daniel Vetter Cc: Chris Wilson , intel-gfx , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , dri-devel , kernel list , Jiri Kosina Subject: Re: 3.15-rc2: i915 regression: only top 20% of screen works in X Message-ID: <20140424133652.GA19610@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> References: <20140423202248.GA3621@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <20140423220952.GA3627@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <20140424055023.GA31221@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu 2014-04-24 08:03:04, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Chris Wilson wrote: > > That says that i915.ko failed to initialise the GPU (or rather the GPU > > wasn't responding) and bailed during module load. The key line here is > > > > [drm:init_ring_common] *ERROR* render ring initialization failed ctl > > 0001f001 head 00002034 tail 00000000 start 0012f000 > > > > Jiri has been seeing a similar issue creep in during resume, but it is > > not reliable enough to bisect. Is your boot failure reliable enough to > > bisect? Also drm-intel-nightly should mitigate this failure and allow > > i915.ko to continue to load and run X, which would be worth testing to > > make sure that works as intended. > > Oh right, g4x going beserk :( Apparently something changed in 3.15 > somewhere which made this much more likely, but like Chris said in > Jiri's case it's too unreliable to reproduce for a bisect. We've had > this come&go pretty much ever since kms support was merged and never > tracked it down. So far I went back to 3.14, and yes, graphics works there. Back to 3.15, put it to smaller monitor. This time, top 30% of screen works, and last working scanline is copied to the rest 60% of screen. [With the exception of mouse cursor, that somehow affects that magically.] > The bug is https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76554 > > Like Chris said please test latest drm-intel-nighlty from > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel to make sure that the recently > merged mitigation measures work properly. But those won't get your gpu > back, only the display and it's only for 3.16. We're still hunting a > proper fix for 3.15. So you know where the bug is or not? > And if you can indeed reliably reproduce this a bisect could be really useful. I'm confused. And yes, it seems reliable. But I'm not sure if I see same bug you are talking about. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/