Re: [Intel-gfx] [Regression] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

From: Andrey Skvortsov
Date: Sun Mar 01 2015 - 04:30:21 EST


On 01 Mar, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 12:57:01AM +0300, Andrey Skvortsov wrote:
> > On 28 Feb, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 03:20:37PM +0300, Andrey Skvortsov wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately this is not the last bug, that breaks i915/drm working
> > > > on my laptop. Sometimes system successfully loads with couple warnings mentioned in
> > > > previous mail:
> > > >
> > > > [ 26.922953] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 767 at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c:4525 i915_gem_free_object+0x13f/0x288 [i915]()
> > > > [ 26.922954] WARN_ON(obj->frontbuffer_bits)
> > >
> > > That's inocuous, but for the serious hang, you may want to try
> > > video=SVIDEO-1:d on the kernel commandline to workaround the hang. (Check
> > > /sys/class/drm/card/ for the actual name of the connector for TV). I
> > > think Ville mentioned he was looking/looked at the atomic-vs-load_detect
> > > changes that is at the heart of the issue here. (Admittedly he did say
> > > it was worthy of a drink or two.)
> > > -Chris
> >
> > Thank you for the help. I've tried to add to the kernel command line
> > 'video=card0-SVIDEO-1:d video=card0-VGA-1:d'. But despite of that
> > kernel crashes with 'BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
> > dereference at' occasionally.
>
> Remove the card0- and combine both into a single video= stanza:
> video=SVIDEO-1:d,VGA-1:d

I've just tried that, but the crash with NULL pointer dereference still happens.

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Best regards,
Andrey Skvortsov

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