PROBLEM: kernel oops caused by vmwgfx_cmdbuf.c:399

[Roland Scheidegger]

Hi,

we are aware of an issue in our driver with kernel 5.7 resulting in
black screen and working on fixing it.

Roland

Am 07.07.20 um 17:43 schrieb Carle, Peter:
> Good morning! Line 399 of vmwgfx_cmdbuf.c apparently causes a kernel oops that freezes the OS during boot-time. 
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> Here is the full line of the summary as reported by the Fedora notification system:
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> WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 414 at drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_cmdbuf.c:399 vmw_cmdbuf_ctx_process+0x262/0x270 [vmwgfx]
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> This problem started with Fedora 32's recent upgrade to kernel version 5.7 on July 2nd. It does not exist in kernel version 5.6. 
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> The problem occurs with Fedora running within VMware Workstation Pro on a Windows 10 host. It does not occur with VirtualBox. 
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> When I attempt to boot the VM, it freezes with a black screen after getting past the initial boot screen. 
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> I have included screenshots of the full error report from the notification system, since it was having trouble exporting it to text format. Probably the most pertinent screenshots are vmwgfx_crash.PNG and coredump_dmesg.PNG.
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> Thank you!
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