Re: PROBLEM: i915 causes complete desktop freezes in 4.15-rc5

[Alexandru Chirvasitu]

Will do. 

On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 08:02:48PM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Alexandru Chirvasitu (2018-01-05 19:58:42)
> > OK, I then plan to try with the previous config, plus these
> > modifications:
> > 
> > CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING not set
> > CONFIG_SLUB_STATS=y
> > 
> > I'm a little puzzled about this:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > It would be CONFIG_SLUB_STATS and then you would a
> > > /sys/kernel/slab/i915_dependency/ directory with all the details of the
> > > slab, and in particular a poison file showing the status (and allowing
> > > it to modified) of slab poisoning
> > > 
> > > Ok, it looks like poisoning is only available if CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is
> > > set. Since it is not set, don't worry about it ;)
> > 
> > I actually do have SLUB_DEBUG set to 'y' in the kernel whose dmesg I
> > last sent you.
> 
> Ah, ok. I was looking at the config attached the first mail. Turn off
> SLUB_DEBUG for now to give ourselves the best chance at getting
> something from kasan. I hope it's worth the effort...

No worries, worth it at my end already. And thanks!

Will get back when I have another crash.