[Intel-gfx] 3.14 issue with i810 graphic card bisected

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am 18.04.2014 22:38, schrieb Tejun Heo:
> Hello,
>
> Sorry about the long delay.
>
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 08:37:49AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I bisected a X startup crash due to new 3.14 kernel:
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/kernfs/file.c?id=9b2db6e1894577d48f4e290381bac6e573593838
>> It's an old intel 810 graphics card which got broken.
>> dmesg and xorg.log attached.
> Hmm... I'm stumped.  The patch shouldn't cause any visible difference
> to the userland.  I went over it a couple more times and still can't
> see how this would make any difference.  Can you please do the
> followings?
>
> * Repeat the test on v3.14 with only the patch reverted.  If it makes
>   the problem go away reliably,
>
> * strace X startup on v3.14 and v3.14 sans the offending patch.
>
> Thanks!
>
Hi shortened the patch,
indeed only the 5 lines are the error source.
Patch attached.

greetings
tpowa

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Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org

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