Re: DRM and/or X trouble

[Satyam S. <sa...@in...>]

[ Trimmed Cc: list, dropped sched folk, retained DRM. ]


On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Rene Herman wrote:

> On 08/31/2007 08:46 AM, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
> 
> > > On 08/29/2007 09:56 PM, Rene Herman wrote:
> 
> > > > > With X server 1.3, I'm getting consistent crashes with two glxgear
> > > > > instances running. So, if you're getting any output, it's better than
> > > > > my
> > > > > situation.
> > > > Before people focuss on software rendering too much -- also with 1.3.0
> > > > (and a Matrox Millenium G550 AGP, 32M) glxgears also works decidedly
> > > > crummy using hardware rendering. While I can move the glxgears window
> > > > itself, the actual spinning wheels stay in the upper-left corner of the
> > > > screen and the movement leaves a non-repainting trace on the screen.
> > 
> > This sounds like you're running an older version of Mesa.
> > The bugfix went into Mesa 6.3 and 7.0.
> 
> I have Mesa 6.5.2 it seems (slackware-12.0 standard):
> 
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI G400 20061030 AGP 2x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE
> OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 6.5.2
> 
> The bit of the problem sketched above -- the gears just sitting there in the
> upper left corner of the screen and not moving alongside their window is fully
> reproduceable. The bit below ... :
> 
> > > > Running a second instance of glxgears in addition seems to make both
> > > > instances unkillable -- and when I just now forcefully killed X in this
> > > > situation (the spinning wheels were covering the upper left corner of
> > > > all
> > > > my desktops) I got the below.
> 
> [ two kernel BUGs ]
> 
> ... isn't. This seems to (again) have been a race of sorts that I hit by
> accident since I haven't reproduced yet. Had the same type of "racyness"
> trouble with keyboard behaviour in this version of X earlier.

Dave (Airlie), this is an oops first reported at:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/30/9

mga_freelist_get() is inlined at its only callsite mga_dma_get_buffers()
that is in turn inlined at its only callsite in mga_dma_buffers(). This
oops was hit ...

static struct drm_buf *mga_freelist_get(struct drm_device * dev)
{
	...
	head = MGA_READ(MGA_PRIMADDRESS); <=== ... HERE.
	...
}

MGA_READ() is DRM_READ32(), and dev_priv->mmio was found to be NULL when
trying to access dev_priv->mmio->handle as shown above.


> > Running two instances of glxgears and killing them works for me, too.
> > 
> > I'm using xorg-server 1.3.0.0, Mesa 7.0.1 with the latest DRM bits from
> > http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=mesa/drm.git;a=summary
> 
> For me, everything standard slackware-12.0 (X.org 1.3.0) and kernel 2.6.22
> DRM.
> 
> > I'm not running CFS though, but I guess the oops wasn't related to that.
> 
> I've noticed before the Matrox driver seems to get little attention/testing so
> maybe that's just it. A G550 is ofcourse in graphics-time a Model T by now.
> I'm rather decidedly not a graphics person so I don't care a lot but every
> time I try to do something fashionable (run Google Earth for example) I notice
> things are horribly, horribly broken.
> 
> X bugs I do not find very interesting (there's just too many) and the kernel
> bugs are requiring more time to reproduce than I have available. If the BUGs
> as posted aren't enough for a diagnosis, please consider the report withdrawn.

As you already know by now, this oops isn't a bug or anything in the
scheduler at all, but more likely a race in the DRM itself (which possibly
could have been exposed by some aspect of CFS). So it makes sense to
"withdraw" this as a CFS-related bug report, but definitely not as a DRM-
related bug report.


Satyam