Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754450AbYKCUX7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:23:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755883AbYKCUXd (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:23:33 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:57119 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755803AbYKCUXb (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:23:31 -0500 Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] radeonfb lockup in .28-rc (bisected) From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: James Cloos Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , "David S. Miller" , Krzysztof Halasa In-Reply-To: References: <1225152347.8004.49.camel@pasglop> <1225662539.8004.237.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:22:34 +1100 Message-Id: <1225743754.8004.260.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1282 Lines: 32 On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 10:33 -0500, James Cloos wrote: > >>>>> "Benjamin" == Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > > >> is in play. It is probably spinning through all of the 2000000 possible > >> udelay(10) calls. I don't think I ever gave it twenty seconds before > >> giving up. And certainly not forty seconds, if the freeze happens after > >> setting the DST_Y_X register. > > Benjamin> Well, setting DST_Y_X is what triggers the transfer. The above > Benjamin> means that the FIFO isn't emptying (ie, the engine is locked up). > > I gave it another try over the weekend and let it sit for five minutes. > The reset message never appeared. Because it's probably going to lockup trying to display it :-) I need to make that stuff a bit more robust, by disabling acceleration if the engine locks up for example. > Again, that is fine by me. Otherwise I'll just leave the #if0 commit > in my compile clone. Allright, we'll see what I come up with, and at worst, I'll just revert the whole thing. Ben. -- 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/