Re: Intel i915 freeze on latest git

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 09:50:47 -0800, Jesse Barnes jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org wrote:

On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:09:10 +0000 Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk wrote:

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I was optimistic that we might spot the real issue... However, you appear to be not alone and so I've pushed a disabling patch onto -fixes:

commit ac66808814036b4c33dd98091b2176ae6157f1a8 Author: Chris Wilson chris@chris-wilson.co.uk Date: Wed Feb 9 16:15:32 2011 +0000

drm/i915: Disable RC6 on Ironlake

reverting the cleanup wasn't sufficient?

Considering we've been burnt badly by rc6 in the past, and we now have two independent regression reports of hard hangs at completely different stages, disabling it seemed the prudent course. I left a switch in place so we can continue testing. -Chris