Comment 12 for bug 541511

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In , Bonbons67 (bonbons67) wrote :

> > It seems to be very much a matter of mood, on friday evening I saw no single
> > bad message while today there were a lot.
>
> Just to clarify: You're talking about the BUG in i915_gem_object_put_pages
> here, not the "chipset flush failed" warning? And this is still on the old
> version of the patch, right?

The matter of mood was regarding the chipset flush failed warnings (as for GPU wedges before testing with your patch). Some day everything is running smooth, some days I have to reboot every hour (no noticeable usage difference on my side).

> > Since a crash I'm running now with 2.6.34-rc2 + your patch and one of mine for
> > sd.
> > Both with previous patch and current one I'm hitting a BUG() in
> > i915_gem_object_put_pages(). obj_priv->pages_refcount is zero in there. No
> > idea if it's related or not but it kills i915 driver!
>
> Known issue, I get these here from time to time, too. Looks like my
> unmap-inactive hack, intended to stress gtt cache flushing is uncovering
> another problem somewhere else. I'll look into this more seriously now.

I got it with both versions of your patch, let's see what today will bring, flush warnings or BUGs (or both).