Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751636Ab2J3BpQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:45:16 -0400 Received: from 209-20-75-48.static.cloud-ips.com ([209.20.75.48]:32987 "EHLO shiva.chad-versace.us" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751332Ab2J3BpO (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:45:14 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 463 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:45:13 EDT Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:37:39 -0700 From: Ben Widawsky To: Norbert Preining Cc: Dave Airlie , Daniel Vetter , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" Subject: Re: drm i915 hangs on heavy io load Message-ID: <20121029183739.47eeb944@bwidawsk.net> In-Reply-To: <20121030010138.GB6976@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> References: <20121023053830.GA30776@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20121024003659.GA30962@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20121028024753.GA4254@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20121029071715.GA17023@mac.home> <20121030004958.GA6976@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20121030010138.GB6976@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.13; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2509 Lines: 66 On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:01:38 +0900 Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On Di, 30 Okt 2012, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > Thanks, running now with SNA. Let us see what happens. > > > > Please don't, we ain't going to find the bug any quicker changing > > variables, if the only thing that changed on your system was the > > Sorry, didn't know. I supposed from the email of Chris that I should > try it "to stress different code path" ... anyway, disabling it again. > > > How long does it take you to reproduce, and does it happen when in > > Very hard to say, most of the times it is in a few days scale. > Though it happened also after a few hours once. > > > actual use. On my laptop I've noticed I come back to it sometimes > > and > > Concerning actual use: I had instances on several occassions. Just > 30min ago it was while working with shotwell on my photo collection, > tagging photos. So there should not be a big disk activity or so, but > a lot of screen redraws etc when going through the photos. > On other times it was locked screen without screen saver. > > Concerning coming back: For me it never worked. I always have to > reboot to get a working state again. Ok, to be more specific. GNome3 > is dead. I can close the windows normally with kbd shortcuts and some > mouse interaction, but no new windows, no moving etc. > > > gnome-shell is dead. This never happened pre 3.7-rc's. But for me > > its a 3-4 day window so far for it to die, which makes bisecting it > > a bit > > That sounds pretty much like my case, but since I often don't use > the laptop for 2 days or so, it might be a bit longer. > > > of a major problem. and I'm just finished bisecting the last > > Ironlake regression that took over a month. > > Ouch ... > > > I would suggest starting a bisect on drivers/gpu/drm/i915 from 3.6 > > final to 3.7-rc1 or maybe -rc2. > > Ok, thanks. I will try. > > Best wishes > > Norbert Hi Norbert. In addition to the above, if this truly appears to be related to i/o, can we try to decrease the time to failure with some serious i/o tests? Off the top of my head I am not sure what's available, but surely Google should be able to find something. -- Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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/