In my opinion (from a users standpoint) this bug should be considered release critical for Jessie, as it makes Radeon Southern Island hardware more or less unusable. I'm running two machines with RadeonSI cards, one with Debian, one with Gentoo, and I can confirm from the Gentoo box, that disabling the dma engine (and using the latest radeon-ucode) indeed solves the crash issues.
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