"Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung" in 3.8.0-rc2

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 07:06:52PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 06:11:23PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:16:24PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:46 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields at fieldses.org> wrote:
> > > > I got a crash after a few minutes of running 3.8.0-rc2, was able to
> > > > switch to a vt and look at dmesg:
> > > >
> > > >   [  490.962545] [drm:i915_hangcheck_hung] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung
> > > >   [  490.963019] [drm] capturing error event; look for more information in /debug/dri/0/i915_error_state
> > > >   [  492.961446] [drm:i915_hangcheck_hung] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung
> > > >   [  492.965613] [drm:i915_reset] *ERROR* GPU hanging too fast, declaring wedged!
> > > >   [  492.965621] [drm:i915_reset] *ERROR* Failed to reset chip.
> > > >
> > > > Previously I was on 3.6.10-2.fc17.x86_64, which didn't have any such
> > > > problem.
> > > 
> > > I'm not questioning that you haven't seen that error in F17, but we have
> > > had quite a few bug reports with similar error messages for a while now.
> > > Apparently there are lots of ways GPUs can get hung, so they might be
> > > different from what you're seeing.  Just wanted to point out that it
> > > might not be a new 3.8 change that caused it.
> > 
> > OK, sure.  It reproduced very quickly after the upgrade, so I assumed it
> > was a regression.
> > 
> > I'm running 3.7.0 now which hasn't shown any problem.
> > 
> > I'll try a newer kernel again to see if it's really that easy for me to
> > reproduce.
> 
> If you hit this again (even better if you have a way to reproduce)

Unfortunately I wasn't able to reproduce after working a couple more
hours on 3.8 again.  However:

> please grab the i915_error_state file from debugfs

As I said in the original mail, I've already done that:

	http://fieldses.org/~bfields/3.8-hang/

> and file a bug on
> bugs.freedesktop.org against DRM - DRI (Intel).

Would it still be useful for me to file a bug?  (Just going through the
new-account confirmation dance now.)

--b.

> We do know of a few recent
> issues introduced around 3.7 kernels, preliminary patches are floating
> around. The error state should be good enough to decide whether you're
> hitting the same issues.
> 
> Thanks, Daniel
> -- 
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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