Re: [BUG] VAAPI encoder cause kernel panic if encoded video in 4K

From: Christian König
Date: Wed Sep 15 2021 - 07:47:33 EST




Am 15.09.21 um 12:36 schrieb Mikhail Gavrilov:
On Wed, 15 Sept 2021 at 14:55, Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, absolutely. You should see GPU resets and recovery in the system log after that.
Unfortunately, not one DE will survive a GPU reset. All applications
will terminate abnormally in fact this would be equivalent to reboot
(and denial of service). :(

Yeah, very well known bug in the DEs.

The OpenGL robustness extension and Vulkan specification are pretty clear what drivers are supposed to do in such a situation, it's just not very well handled in userspace.

Regards,
Christian.