[Intel-gfx] Graphical corruption post 2.6.38

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Chris Wilson at 23/03/11 14:08 did gyre and gimble:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:54:11 +0000, Colin Guthrie <intel at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Running latest drivers from git + recent drm+xserver.
>>
>> After upgrading to 2.6.38 I seem to get occasional graphical corruption.
>> This manifests itself mostly obviously in e.g gnome-terminal when
>> getting git status and such like (although there are many other triggers
>> - have seen it in various apps).
>>
>> Here is an example of what it looks like, but it can be much worse.
>> http://colin.guthr.ie/intel-2.6.38.png
>>
>> Any idea of what could cause this before I go digging too deeply?
> 
> First try:
> 
> commit 29c5a587284195278e233eec5c2234c24fb2c204
> Author: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Date:   Thu Mar 17 15:23:22 2011 +0000
> 
>     drm/i915: Fix tiling corruption from pipelined fencing

Looks like a good bet. I'll try and get this tested sometime soon :)

Cheers

Col

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