On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:25:41AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > > This does indeed stop the server from crashing, but actually makes the > > problem worse: it used to play video for a few minutes and then crash > > when trying. With my patch it would play video for a few minutes and > > then present black screens when trying. With your patch, it presents > > black screens from the start. > > Start of video, or beginning of X? Beginning of X. After starting and logging in, I can play them for a few minutes; afterwards it will crash. > > I must say I'm not entirely sure if the backtrace I sent you is a > > "typical" case; I managed to crash it sooner than usual, so perhaps it > > wasn't the bug that I triggered before. It did stop the crashing > > however. > > > > > However, that still leaveas the question as to how you ended up being > > > unable to allocate bo... I didn't check the backtrace myself, but when I wrote my shotgun-patch, the problem was that pixmap_private was NULL; bo is in there, right? So at least in that case, it could never have allocated it, or at least it couldn't store the pointer. > > While looking for it I did find and try intel-gpu-time, and noticed that > > it always reports the gpu 100% busy, even when running intel-gpu-time > > sleep 5 from a linux virtual terminal (so not even X is displayed). Is > > that normal? > > Hmm, looks like it should report correctly on i915. Due to unrelated problems (unbearable slowness) I switched from gnome to xfce. It does report 0% now. It seems gnome keeps the gpu busy even if it's not displaying anything... Thanks, Bas
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