Re: [3.16.y-ckt stable] Linux 3.16.7-ckt4 stable review

[Thomas Voegtle]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Luis Henriques wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 09:30:45PM +0100, Thomas Voegtle wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Luis Henriques wrote:
> >
> > > This is the start of the review cycle for the Linux 3.16.7-ckt4 stable kernel.
> > >
> > > This version contains 216 new patches, summarized below.  The new patches are
> > > posted as replies to this message and also available in this git branch:
> > >
> > > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;h=linux-3.16.y-review;a=shortlog
> > >
> > > git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git  linux-3.16.y-review
> > >
> > > The review period for version 3.16.7-ckt4 will be open for the next three days.
> > > To report a problem, please reply to the relevant follow-up patch message.
> > >
> > > For more information about the Linux 3.16.y-ckt extended stable kernel version,
> > > see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable .
> >
> >
> > Something is wrong with drm/i915 (I guess). I had a terrible memleak on Xorg
> > when using mplayer using more and more RAM, and then the system is swapping
> > itself to death.
> >
> > I'm using a openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64) on a Baytrail J1900 (this is Intel HD
> > Gen7).
>
> Thank you for reporting, Thomas.  Can you please confirm that this is
> actually a regression in 3.16.7-ckt4 (i.e., that you can't reproduce
> it in 3.16.7-ckt3)?  If so, is it possible to bisecting it?


3.16.7-ckt3 was fine for me.

I tried to revert the drm/i915 patches in the review branch, and I got 
lucky with (only) reverting cb58c663d940a "drm/i915: Disallow pin ioctl 
completely for kms drivers".

No clue, why reverting these few lines helps, but then I have no memleak.


     Thomas

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