[TLDR: I'm adding this regression report to the list of tracked regressions; all text from me you find below is based on a few templates paragraphs you might have encountered already already in similar form.]

Hi, this is your Linux kernel regression tracker. Top-posting for once, to make this easily accessible to everyone.

Thanks for the report.

To be sure below issue doesn't fall through the cracks unnoticed, I'm adding it to regzbot, my Linux kernel regression tracking bot:

#regzbot ^introduced b5cfe6f7a6e1 #regzbot title drm/i915: BYT rendering broken due to "Remove short-term pins from execbuf, v6" #regzbot ignore-activity

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On 08.05.22 16:38, Hans de Goede wrote:

Hi All,

When running a 5.18-rc4 (and -rc5) kernel on a Chuwi Hi 8, which is a Bay Trail based tablet with 2G RAM and a 1200x1920 DSI panel. I noticed that gnome-shell was misrendering. Many UI elements were missing (they were all black) and at the gdm login screen (which is a special gnome-shell session) the screen often was entirely black until I move the cursor around and then various things got highlighted after which they sometimes stuck around and sometimes they disappeared again after the highlight.

Since this problem does not happen with various 5.17.y kernels I believe that this is a kernel regression in 5.18. I've bisected this and the bisect points to:

commit b5cfe6f7a6e1 ("drm/i915: Remove short-term pins from execbuf, v6.")

from Maarten. This commit cleanly reverts on top of 5.18-rc5 and I can confirm that 5.18-rc5 with b5cfe6f7a6e1 reverted fixes things.

I would be more then happy to test any possible fixes for this.

Regards,

Hans

On 08/05/2022 15:38, Hans de Goede wrote:

Hi All,

When running a 5.18-rc4 (and -rc5) kernel on a Chuwi Hi 8, which is a Bay Trail based tablet with 2G RAM and a 1200x1920 DSI panel. I noticed that gnome-shell was misrendering. Many UI elements were missing (they were all black) and at the gdm login screen (which is a special gnome-shell session) the screen often was entirely black until I move the cursor around and then various things got highlighted after which they sometimes stuck around and sometimes they disappeared again after the highlight.

Since this problem does not happen with various 5.17.y kernels I believe that this is a kernel regression in 5.18. I've bisected this and the bisect points to:

commit b5cfe6f7a6e1 ("drm/i915: Remove short-term pins from execbuf, v6.")

from Maarten. This commit cleanly reverts on top of 5.18-rc5 and I can confirm that 5.18-rc5 with b5cfe6f7a6e1 reverted fixes things.

I would be more then happy to test any possible fixes for this.

For reference the same commit was identified for a GM45 regression here:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/5806

Regards,

Tvrtko