Old: i810 reclaim buffers deadlock

[Daniel Vetter]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Paul Rogers <paulgrogers at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Ancient history, I know, apologies for that, but I can't see my way to a
> solution and need help.
>
> Arguments: i815, kernel 2.6.34.14, XOrg-7.2, driver
> xf86-video-i810-1.6.5/1.7.4
>
> I'm hitting the old buffer reclaim deadlock problem.  Is there a
> compatible kernel patch for 2.6.34 or a version of the X driver that
> will fix the error?  Is there a path to resolution that doesn't involve
> wholesale changes?  The stuff I get from Google is quite confusing as to
> it's application.

I've "fixed" this in

commit 87499ffdcb1c70f66988cd8febc4ead0ba2f9118
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Date:   Tue Oct 25 23:51:24 2011 +0200

    drm/i810: cleanup reclaim_buffers

which is in v3.3 and later.

Cheers, Daniel