X freezing occasionally [nouveau bug SOLVED]

[walt]

On 08/07/2010 05:34 PM, walt wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Both times X has locked up, firefox was just starting to load a web page
> that I'd clicked on. (Two different websites.)
>
> I can ssh into the machine and use top to see /usr/bin/Xorg using 100%
> of CPU (an older single-core amd 32-bit cpu)>

> Strace shows Xorg is printing endless numbers of the messages below:
> ioctl(7, 0x40086482, 0xbffdc7c8) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
> --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) ---
> sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])>
>
> Kernel is today's Linus.git with its (unmodified) nouveau support.

My freezing problem was fixed by this patch:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=38240

I'm following up here because the patch still hasn't made it to Linus.git
as of today, 2010-Sep-06.