[Intel-gfx] Patch for crashing intel server

[Chris Wilson]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:30:51AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 04:22:43PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 04:30:57PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:25:41AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > > > > This does indeed stop the server from crashing, but actually makes the
> > > > > problem worse: it used to play video for a few minutes and then crash
> > > > > when trying.  With my patch it would play video for a few minutes and
> > > > > then present black screens when trying.  With your patch, it presents
> > > > > black screens from the start.
> > > > 
> > > > Start of video, or beginning of X?
> > > 
> > > Beginning of X.  After starting and logging in, I can play them for a
> > > few minutes; afterwards it will crash.
> > 
> > Still weird. Can you attach the Xorg.log from the black screen and/or crash.
> 
> That took some time, because since I switched to xfce, it is a lot more
> stable.  However, after running for a few days it still crashed when
> trying to play a video.  The log is attached.
> 
> I would have attached a detailed backtrace as well, but unfortunately I
> forgot to switch the core dump option on when switching from gdm to xdm,
> so I don't have a core this time.

No worries, if you can run

addr2line -e /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so -i 0xfcd79 0xf8215

that should give me the information needed to pinpoint the crash.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre