Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752049AbZAIPIp (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:08:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753358AbZAIPHx (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:07:53 -0500 Received: from 93-97-173-237.zone5.bethere.co.uk ([93.97.173.237]:54517 "EHLO tim.rpsys.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755281AbZAIPHw (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:07:52 -0500 Subject: Re: [git pull] drm From: Richard Purdie To: Dave Airlie Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:07:35 +0000 Message-Id: <1231513655.5317.30.camel@dax.rpnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1686 Lines: 48 Hi, I just updated to the latest kernel from git to test some other patches and after logging into GDM the X server hangs before launching the desktop (it appears to be trying to run glxinfo) on my Thinkpad T61 (i915 graphics). Bisection shows this happens after applying this commit: On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 08:32 +0000, Dave Airlie wrote: > Please pull the 'drm-next' branch from > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git drm-next [...] > commit 7c1c2871a6a3a114853ec6836e9035ac1c0c7f7a > Author: Dave Airlie > Date: Fri Nov 28 14:22:24 2008 +1000 > > drm: move to kref per-master structures. > > This is step one towards having multiple masters sharing a drm > device in order to get fast-user-switching to work. > > It splits out the information associated with the drm master > into a separate kref counted structure, and allocates this when > a master opens the device node. It also allows the current master > to abdicate (say while VT switched), and a new master to take over > the hardware. > > It moves the Intel and radeon drivers to using the sarea from > within the new master structures. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie Is this issue known? I'm presuming my userspace should continue to work after that change! :) Cheers, Richard -- Richard Purdie Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- 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/