On 17 December 2013 22:41, <dt71_at_gmx.com> wrote: > Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote, On 12/17/2013 22:20: > >> On 16.12.2013 08:36, dt71_at_gmx.com wrote: >>> >>> Still nobody wants to apply Robert Noland's DRM patch? >> >> >> What problem(s) does this patch fix? > > > It fixes non-deterministic lockups when the (old, drm1) r300 drivers are > used. > > According to John Baldwin [1]: "The drm code is doing a copyin() while > holding a mutex (which is not allowed)." The latest version of the patch > (also the one I used for years) is at [2], linked from [3]. Hm. Well, can we add some lock assertions to the dri code to panic whenever this is done? -aReceived on Mon Dec 30 2013 - 20:17:51 UTC
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