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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED WORKSFORME - xorg-server-1.13.0: core dump on regen"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56608#c43">Comment # 43</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED WORKSFORME - xorg-server-1.13.0: core dump on regen"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56608">bug 56608</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:chris@chris-wilson.co.uk" title="Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>"> <span class="fn">Chris Wilson</span></a>
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<pre> > I don't poke around in X server code for quite a few years. Last time it was
<span class="quote">> on xfree86 on an i486, so please enlight me: is Xorg (or xf86-video-intel
> driver) multi-threaded these days? Because this behavior seems consistent
> with multiple threads loosing sync.</span >
There are the occasional use of threads, but the phase you are in is explicitly
single-threaded (teardown/setup). Yes, the symptoms would appear to be the same
as in both cases we are chasing stale pointers.
Another theory to test:
commit 904af323914e05830f17621a78b6e55b371ae5fc
Author: Chris Wilson <<a href="mailto:chris@chris-wilson.co.uk">chris@chris-wilson.co.uk</a>>
Date: Fri Mar 1 15:34:45 2013 +0000
sna: Assert that we do not resurrect stale pixmap across a server regen
References: <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED WORKSFORME - xorg-server-1.13.0: core dump on regen"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=56608">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56608</a></pre>
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