Re: [git pull] drm merge for 3.9-rc1

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Alex Deucher (29):
>>>       drm/radeon: halt engines before disabling MC (6xx/7xx)
>>>       drm/radeon: halt engines before disabling MC (evergreen)
>>>       drm/radeon: halt engines before disabling MC (cayman/TN)
>>>       drm/radeon: halt engines before disabling MC (si)
>>>       drm/radeon: use the reset mask to determine if rings are hung
>>
>> Something in this series of commits is causing the GPU to hang on reboot
>> on my Dell XPS 8300 machine.  That has a:
>>
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee
>> ATI Caicos [Radeon HD 6450]
>>
>> card in it.  After reboots, I get a screen that looks like this:
>>
>> http://t.co/tPnT6xQZUK
>>
>> I can hit it fairly consistently after a few reboots, so I tried doing a
>> git bisect on the radeon driver and it came down to:
>>
>> ca57802e521de54341efc8a56f70571f79ffac72 is the first bad commit
>
> So I don't think that's actually the cause of the problem.  Or at least
> not that alone.  I reverted it on top of Linus' latest tree and I still
> get the lockups.
>
> Thus far I've reverted:
>
>       drm/radeon: use status regs to determine what to reset (6xx/7xx)
>       drm/radeon: use status regs to determine what to reset (evergreen)
>       drm/radeon: use status regs to determine what to reset (cayman)
>       drm/radeon: use status regs to determine what to reset (si)
>       drm/radeon: halt engines before disabling MC (6xx/7xx)
>       drm/radeon: halt engines before disabling MC (evergreen)
>       drm/radeon: halt engines before disabling MC (cayman/TN)
>       drm/radeon: halt engines before disabling MC (si)
>       drm/radeon: use the reset mask to determine if rings are hung
>
> and can still recreate the issue.  I'm starting to think the problem is

Sigh.  Of course I just realized that I haven't been regenerating the
initramfs, so I'm not even testing what I'm building at this point.  So
all I know is that it's broken somewhere between the two commits in my
initial bisect log.  I've had better days.

josh
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