[PATCH] drm/amdgpu: initialize the context reset_counter in amdgpu_ctx_init

[Nicolai Hähnle]

On 06.10.2016 16:43, Marek Olšák wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Do we need to bump the DRM version for this bug fix?
>>>
>>
>> Alternatively, we could just cc stable.  Being that the whole reset
>> handling is mesa is till kind of up in the air, I'm not sure how
>> critical it is.
>
> The Mesa part is actually complete. The problem is that if an
> application requests the GL_LOSE_CONTEXT_ON_RESET strategy, an
> incorrect reset counter returned by the kernel will automatically kill
> the OpenGL context (by setting the no-op dispatch), so it's a pretty
> serious issue and the kernel should return correct values regardless
> of the state of GPU reset there. If the kernel returns an incorrect
> reset counter, we need a version bump for the fix.

Yeah, that seems to be the safest solution.

Nicolai

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> Marek
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