Comment 24 for bug 1868551

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B. (b-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: Screen freezes : NULL pointer dereference i915_active_acquire since Linux 5.4

Q: Is there an upstream commit?

A: Not that I am aware of

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/827

A month ago:
Hi, when will this make it's way into Kernel 5.4? -- The Boy from the MAD show ;-)

You can check if you had the same type crash of your Ubuntu 20.04 (soon LTS)

zgrep -h i915_active_acquire /var/log/kern.log*

RIP: 0010:i915_active_acquire+0xe/0x80 [i915]

I had about one or two crash / freeze of Ubuntu 20.04 per week on my Dell XPS 13 connected to an external monitor. Initially, I thought it was related to the instability of the hardware itself but at the end it seems to be an Intel i915 graphics kernel driver bug or regression on Linux Kernel 5.4.