[Intel-gfx] PROBLEM: i915 causes complete desktop freezes in 4.15-rc5

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Alexandru Chirvasitu (2017-12-30 17:31:32)
> Short description: I get freezes of my desktop completely eliminating
> mouse / keyboard functionality.
> 
> I’m on an UltraLap 5330, Processor: i7-7500U, Memory: 32 GB DDR4-2133
> Video Card: Intel HD (included). It's running Void linux 64 bit. That
> distro's latest kernel is 4.14.8, but I've been trying out the 4.15-rc
> kernels. This has happened with rc3, rc4 and currently rc5.
> 
> I can ssh into the frozen machine and roam around freely. Xorg shows
> as <defunct> when I do, and nothing I have tried on the command line
> has succeeded in restroing functionality (killing processes, changing
> runlevels, etc.; there's no visible response from the computer). Only
> reboots resolve the matter (button reboots or issued as commands
> through ssh).
> 
> While ssh-d in I can get the dmesg log, which is attached. The
> relevant portion is presumably the trace at the very end.

I can't find how this can happen, the lists here are serialized by
struct_mutex. (The poison would indicate that the elements p->dfs_link
points to are freed, not p itself.) If you could run with lockdep (to
verify that the locks are indeed held here) and kasan to find the
alloc/free of the struct being used-after-free, that would be extremely
valuable.
-Chris