[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 3/3] winsys/radeon: disable virtual address space by default

[Marek Olšák]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
> On Don, 2012-08-30 at 17:35 +0200, Marek Olšák wrote:
>> This fixes hangs on Cayman.
>
> Note that at least some of those hangs are due to pre-existing
> out-of-bounds memory access bugs which happen not to cause any serious
> problems without virtual address space. Enabling it can help pinpoint
> those bugs using the virtual memory protection fault address.

I tried to allocate twice as much memory for every r600g resource and
it still hung. I am out of ideas and I see no easy way to debug that,
because the soft reset just doesn't work. I don't even remember when
the soft reset worked last time. It's been so long.

Marek