[Intel-gfx] Approximately every other day video will freeze for no reason at all and no specific time between freezes.

[Mike Lothian]

Hi

I'm not certain but I think I faced the same issue when I was enabling
atomic on my sandybridge laptop, it was like one of the planes stopped
being updated. When I reported it all that time ago I was told atomic was
considered unstable and I shouldn't be using it.

Has atomic been switched on recently?

Unfortunately the laptop is no longer functional so I can't test any of
this out

Mike

On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 10:32 Martin Steigerwald <martin at lichtvoll.de> wrote:

> Hi Chris, hi Intel graphics developers,
>
> Am Freitag, 2. Oktober 2015, 16:06:30 CEST schrieb Chris:
> > To elaborate on this. The video is frozen to include the clock however I
> > can move the mouse cursor around the screen. I can not however switch
> > between window desktops. This happened on 28 Sept 2015 after an uptime
>
> I have seen exactly this issue on ThinkPad T520 with Sandybridge graphics.
>
> With one exception: At least sometimes I have been able to switch to tty1
> and
> do killall -u <affecteduser> to get back to sddm login screen.
>
> I didn´t do anything about it so far. Driver is running in uxa mode, cause
> with sna I experienced hard freezes with mouse freezing and even data
> loss. I
> lost my GPG public key ring after a hard freeze after a gpg --recv-keys
> operation (restored from backup meanwhile). This was at DebConf and a
> developer I worked with recommended me to switch from SNA to UXA. And some
> time ago I had it that kwin sometimes told me it restarted compositing due
> to
> a hang in the graphics driver.
>
> I find freezing issues extremely hard to debug. First off often they happen
> when I am not willing to spend even a single minute on them. Second: What
> to
> do anyway? On a hard freeze, I could try Sys-Rq key combo to sync disk
> contents, and I think I may better enable it anyway to avoid data loss in
> those situations, and hope that *some* information on *why* the hard freeze
> happened still lands in kern.log or Xorg log. On soft freezes I can do
> something if I can still switch to tty1. But what? I have no idea what
> information I can gather *efficiently* to provide at least a somewhat
> meaningful initial bug report within less than 15 to 30 minutes. I don´t
> just
> want to do *something* in that case, but I want something that has a good
> chance on giving a real insight on why the bug is happened and a good hint
> at
> what can be done to fix it.
>
> git-bisect is out of question for me for something that happens so
> irregularily. It would take an insane amount of time with running kernels
> that
> are probably way to unstable for production use – as it may include pre-rc1
> kernels - anyway. Even tough I go to the limits on this machine regarding
> production use, this is still a production machine and I usually wait till
> rc2
> kernels to try out a new kernel.
>
> So I appreciate any pointers what to *efficiently* do about issues like
> this.
> In case I miss any documentated bug triaging howto please point me to it.
> Ideally some kind of bug-reporting tool would be nice. Just run a script
> which
> collects all data that can be helpful into a file that I can attach to a
> bug
> report.
>
>
> That said in general I am really quite happy with the Intel drivers.
>
>
> martin at merkaba:~> phoronix-test-suite system-info
>
> Phoronix Test Suite v5.2.1
> System Information
>
> Hardware:
> Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 3.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO
> 42433WG, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 16384MB,
> Disk: 300GB INTEL SSDSA2CW30 + 480GB Crucial_CT480M50, Graphics: Intel HD
> 3000
> (1300MHz), Audio: Conexant CX20590, Monitor: P24T-7 LED, Network: Intel
> 82579LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205
>
> Software:
> OS: Debian unstable, Kernel: 4.3.0-rc3-tp520-btrfstrim+ (x86_64), Desktop:
> KDE
> Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: intel
> 2.99.917,
> OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20150911, File-System: btrfs,
> Screen Resolution: 3840x1080
>
> lspci -nnv:
>
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation
> Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09)
> (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>         Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21cf]
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 26
>         Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
>         Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>         I/O ports at 5000 [size=64]
>         Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
>         Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
>         Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
>         Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
>         Kernel driver in use: i915
>
> Ciao,
> --
> Martin
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