Re: 3.12.9 kern.log spam from vgaswitcheroo

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> cc'ing list
>
> On 8 June 2014 04:08, Howard Chu <hyc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Asus NP56D, if you use vgaswitcheroo to turn off the discrete GPU, the
>> kernel starts spewing these messages endlessly, until /var/log partition
>> fills up:
>>
>> Jun  7 17:40:27 gamba kernel: [470008.702322] [drm:radeon_cs_parser_init]
>> *ERROR* VM not ac
>> tive on asic!
>> Jun  7 17:40:27 gamba kernel: [470008.702325] [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR*
>> Failed to initi
>> alize parser !
>> Jun  7 17:40:27 gamba kernel: [470008.702385] [drm:radeon_cs_parser_init]
>> *ERROR* VM not ac
>> tive on asic!
>> Jun  7 17:40:27 gamba kernel: [470008.702389] [drm:radeon_cs_ioctl] *ERROR*
>> Failed to initi
>> alize parser !
>>
>> Turning the discrete GPU back on stops the stream of messages.

Something is trying to access the GPU while it's off.  Make sure your
version of mesa has this patch:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=cf0172d46ab940a691da6516057c81f28961482f

Alex


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