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Date:   Tue, 7 Apr 2020 09:48:41 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To:     Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Linus, please revert 7dc8f11437: regression in 5.7-rc0, hangs
 while attempting to run X
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Hi!

> > > 7dc8f1143778a35b190f9413f228b3cf28f67f8d
> > >=20
> > >     drm/i915/gem: Drop relocation slowpath
> > >    =20
> > >     Since the relocations are no longer performed under a global
> > >     struct_mutex, or any other lock, that is also held by pagefault h=
andlers,
> > >     we can relax and allow our fast path to take a fault. As we no lo=
nger
> > >     need to abort the fast path for lock avoidance, we no longer need=
 the
> > >     slow path handling at all.
> > >=20
> > > causes regression on thinkpad x220: instead of starting X, I'm looking
> > > at blinking cursor.
> > >=20
> > > Reverting the patch on too of 919dce24701f7b3 fixes things for me.
> >=20
> > I have received no feedback from patch authors, and I believe we don't
> > want to break boot in -rc1 on Intel hardware... so the commit should
> > be simply reverted.
>=20
> Beyond the fix already submitted?

I did not get that one, can I have a pointer?

									Pavel
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