Memory corruption starting in i915 code, in 3.2-rc5

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:14:46AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:14:15 -0500, Alex Villací­s Lasso <a_villacis at palosanto.com> wrote:
> 
> > By using a bootable USB stick, I could check the logs, which
> > showed many segfaults at /lib64/ld-2.14.90.so .
> 
> Ouch!
> 
> Please let me know if you find anything further; I'd like to get a
> revert sent upstream in the next day or so.

Another patch to try is "drm/i915: Only clear the GPU domains upon a
successful finish" from the my-next branch available at:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm/log/?h=my-next

Or just the raw patch:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm/patch/?id=389a55581e30607af0fcde6cdb4e54f189cf46cf

Thanks, Daniel
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