Re: Silent reboots in head _at_r248550 starting xdm with x11/nvidia-driver

From: David Wolfskill <david_at_catwhisker.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:13:24 -0700
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:08:57PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> ...
> I looked at the nvidia sources to check that the driver does not use
> the interfaces which KBI was changed, and this is indeed the case, as
> expected.

OK; thank you for checking & reporting.

> I must admit that I have no idea why buffer cache changes could affect
> nvidia driver, and with no input on the panic (I hope that it is panic,
> and not a reset) have no idea even to speculate. So firewire cable is
> probably the must.

OK.

> Note that I split that import of the work into the series of commits.
> The split was done to ease the reading of the chunks, and individual
> commits were not functionally tested. Still, you might try to do the
> bisect.

OK; I'll see what I can do.  (It's a little awkward, as I use the laptop
to access ... well, just about everything.)

Thanks again!

Peace,
david
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