On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:42:29AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > The code is broken anyways. If you free pages without flushing > > them first some other innocent user allocating them will end up > > with possible uncached pages for some time. > > > > Does this simple patch help? > > > > I've attached a more complicated patch that does a 2 stage effort to > unmapping and freeing pages. My kernel no longer hangs with this > patch... > > Jiri can you confirm?
It's broken for me. 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: solid lock on X shutdown (noticed when upgrading) -rc4-mm1: solid lock on X shutdown, random solid locks about once every four hours -rc6-mm1: solid lock on X startup +your patch: screen goes black, turns off and on a few times during startup, can reboot with sysrq-b Video is: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 02) -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/