WARN in drm_crtc.c:1992 on 3.11-rc2

[Ilia Mirkin]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've started seeing the following warning in 3.11-rc2. [In the
> interest of full disclosure, I do have a patch applied that tries to
> implement drm_planes, which I might have done completely incorrectly,
> but looking around it doesn't seem related. I'm definitely not
> invoking any of the planes functionality right now. See
> http://paste.debian.net/hidden/cf8b3a2, plus a call to the new
> function from the end of dispnv04/disp.c:nv04_display_create ]

Ugh, actually killing my planes stuff actually appears to have fixed
it. This was the third bug with 3.11-rc2 I was investigating, and the
previous 2 hadn't been my fault, and I got cocky. Should have checked
it first, sorry for the trouble.

  -ilia

>
> Here is my traceback: http://pastebin.com/W3SvKFYD, linewrapped version below:
>
> [  379.242635] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [  379.242738] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2260 at
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c:1992 drm_mode_set_config_internal+0x6d/0xba
> [drm]()
> [  379.242740] Modules linked in: it87 hwmon_vid or51132 cx88_dvb
> videobuf_dvb dvb_core ir_mce_kbd_decoder ir_sanyo_decoder
> ir_jvc_decoder ir_sony_decoder ir_rc6_decoder ir_rc5_decoder
> ir_nec_decoder rc_hauppauge tuner_simple tuner_types tda9887 tuner
> rndis_host cdc_ether usbnet usb_storage nouveau fbcon cfbfillrect
> cfbimgblt bitblit softcursor video font btusb cfbcopyarea ttm
> bluetooth drm_kms_helper cx8800 cx8802 drm mxm_wmi crc16 cx88xx
> tveeprom btcx_risc videobuf_dma_sg videobuf_core v4l2_common backlight
> videodev fb fbdev rc_core i2c_algo_bit wmi
> [  379.242784] CPU: 0 PID: 2260 Comm: X Not tainted 3.11.0-rc2+ #59
> [  379.242786] Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
> EX58-UD3R/EX58-UD3R, BIOS FB  05/04/2009
> [  379.242788]  00000000000007c8 ffff8801c4945c58 ffffffff816cc092
> 0000000000000050
> [  379.242793]  0000000000000000 ffff8801c4945c98 ffffffff8106e2fe
> ffff8801c4945c00
> [  379.242797]  ffffffffa0142453 ffff8801c8b03000 0000000000000000
> ffff8801c81af300
> [  379.242802] Call Trace:
> [  379.242808]  [<ffffffff816cc092>] dump_stack+0x46/0x58
> [  379.242815]  [<ffffffff8106e2fe>] warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0x9b
> [  379.242830]  [<ffffffffa0142453>] ?
> drm_mode_set_config_internal+0x6d/0xba [drm]
> [  379.242835]  [<ffffffff8106e332>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x1c
> [  379.242850]  [<ffffffffa0142453>]
> drm_mode_set_config_internal+0x6d/0xba [drm]
> [  379.242866]  [<ffffffffa0144895>] drm_mode_setcrtc+0x495/0x4ef [drm]
> [  379.242871]  [<ffffffff816d1769>] ? _cond_resched+0xe/0x22
> [  379.242875]  [<ffffffff816d0044>] ? mutex_lock+0x16/0x37
> [  379.242887]  [<ffffffffa013772c>] drm_ioctl+0x305/0x41c [drm]
> [  379.242913]  [<ffffffffa0144400>] ? drm_mode_setplane+0x354/0x354 [drm]
> [  379.242930]  [<ffffffff8114fe03>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x407/0x448
> [  379.242941]  [<ffffffff81143a5d>] ? __sb_end_write+0x2f/0x5e
> [  379.242945]  [<ffffffff81141b3f>] ? file_end_write+0x25/0x27
> [  379.242949]  [<ffffffff811423b1>] ? vfs_write+0xf3/0xff
> [  379.242953]  [<ffffffff8114fe90>] SyS_ioctl+0x4c/0x70
> [  379.242959]  [<ffffffff816d9546>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
> [  379.242961] ---[ end trace c33c4d50de085b7e ]---
> [  613.441899] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>
> It appears that this warning was introduced in v3.11-rc1 (commit
> cc85e1217f598). I'm using nouveau, which always uses
> drm_crtc_helper_set_config (at least for nv04/nv50 displays), so
> perhaps there's an issue in that helper function? (I looked at the
> helper and it seems like it updates ->fb at least sometimes, but I
> couldn't make out the full logic.) I have a number of cards plugged in
> right now (NV18, NV44, NV96), not sure which one would be causing
> this. I did see these when flipping between 2 X's that are on
> different vt's.
>
> Let me know if there's anything you'd like me to try, or if you have
> any insight as to why this might be happening.
>
> Thanks,
>
>   -ilia