Attempting to track down radeon driver issue(s)?

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Martin Olsson <mnemo at minimum.se> wrote:
> Alex Deucher wrote:
>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Lowell Alleman
>> <lowell at allemansonline.com> wrote:
>>> I've got my X server stuck in some kind of loop that is using up nearly %100
>>> of the CPU.  I have a remote ssh connection and I'm running gdb against it.
>>> I've very unfamiar with debugging at this level, but I really want to
>>> anything I can to help track down some X issues I'm been hitting.
>>
>> Your GPU has locked up.  The trick is finding what combination of
>> commands and state caused the lockup.
>>
>
> If you had an intel gfx card and 2.6.30 kernel you could dump your batch
> buffers and see what command sequence caused it. I assume there is no such
> debugging facility for Radeon yet...

There are they are not upstream yet; only in Jerome's drm tree at the moment.

Alex

>
> Lowell, try to see if you can find repro steps for the hang. Try stressing
> the driver by running the screensavers in rss-glx and also try some
> games and maybe even some compiz operations. Looking at previously closed
> GPU hang bugs at bugs.freedesktop.org might also give you some ideas.
> You might also try stressing it with x11perf or with piglit/glean.
>
> You might also want to try different driver and mesa versions to see if
> you can find known good/bad versions (and then you can git bisect from there).
> Since you're using Ubuntu you can do this using the X-Updates PPA or using
> the xorg-edgers PPA.
>
>
>                Martin
>