[PATCH] Revert "drm/radeon: Try evicting from CPU accessible to inaccessible VRAM first"

[Michel Dänzer]

On 24/03/17 06:50 PM, Julien Isorce wrote:
> Hi Michel,
> 
> (Just for other readers my reply has been delayed on the mailing lists
> and should have been on second position)

It is on https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/145731/ , did you mean
something else?

The delay was because you weren't subscribed to the amd-gfx mailing list
yet, so your post went through the moderation queue.


> I will have a go with that change and let you know. I do not remember if
> I tried it for this soft lockup. But for sure it does not solve the hard
> lockup that Zach also mentioned at the end of his reply.

I'll follow up to his post about that.


> But in general, isn't "radeon_lockup_timeout" supposed to detect this
> situation ?

No, it's for detecting GPU hangs, whereas this is a CPU "hang" (infinite
loop).


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