Bug#800574: Bug#807244: libegl1-nvidia: Programs crash due to elisian-unlock on skylake processor with nvidia driver 352.63-1 (experimental)

2015-12-09 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2015-12-08 22:30, Jelle Haandrikman wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > On 2015-12-08 19:25, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > >Hi Aurelien, > > > >... buggy software (#807244), which is only exposed by running on > >hardware with working TSX-NI. > >That could also explain the fact that the bug was introduced in

Bug#800574: Bug#807244: libegl1-nvidia: Programs crash due to elisian-unlock on skylake processor with nvidia driver 352.63-1 (experimental)

2015-12-08 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, On 2015-12-07 23:26, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Dear libc maintainers, > > we recently got a bug report regarding the TSX-NI / lock elision bug in > combination with the non-free nvidia driver (#807244). Since that is > supposed to be fixed with the libc in experimental (and now sid as >

Bug#800574: Bug#807244: libegl1-nvidia: Programs crash due to elisian-unlock on skylake processor with nvidia driver 352.63-1 (experimental)

2015-12-08 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi Aurelien, thanks for your analysis. On 2015-12-08 10:23, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > I disagree it is supposed to be fixed. Intel got a few bugs in there > TSX-NI implementation for Haswell and Broadwell and possibly early > versions of Skylake, and to avoid data loss we have therefore disabled >

Bug#800574: Bug#807244: libegl1-nvidia: Programs crash due to elisian-unlock on skylake processor with nvidia driver 352.63-1 (experimental)

2015-12-08 Thread Jelle Haandrikman
Hi Andreas, On 2015-12-08 19:25, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Hi Aurelien, ... buggy software (#807244), which is only exposed by running on hardware with working TSX-NI. That could also explain the fact that the bug was introduced in 352+. Jelle, I didn't dig through the nvidia forums, but if

Bug#800574: Bug#807244: libegl1-nvidia: Programs crash due to elisian-unlock on skylake processor with nvidia driver 352.63-1 (experimental)

2015-12-07 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Dear libc maintainers, we recently got a bug report regarding the TSX-NI / lock elision bug in combination with the non-free nvidia driver (#807244). Since that is supposed to be fixed with the libc in experimental (and now sid as well), perhaps you could take a look why this still happens.