Bug 91738

Created attachment 117882 [details]
Xorg log

Created attachment 117883 [details]
dmesg_after_startx

What is this -- xcmddc ? I suspect it's not helping.

But actually your problem is due to xf86-video-intel built against a recent libdrm version. You either need a patch, or to downgrade libdrm below 2.4.60. The intel ddx patch is available at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/commit/?id=7fe2b2948652443ff43d907855bd7a051d54d309

By the way, for the xcmddc issue, it may be helpful if you could provide your vbios (available at /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/vbios.rom).

But Xorg is crashing most likely because of intel, which you need to rebuild against an older libdrm (or rebuild with the patch I linked to).

Thank you Ilia! I will try that patch.

Upgrading xf86-video-intel did the trick! Thank you Ilia. Although on my first reboot X would not start. It was a hard lockup (I was unable to get to another tty).

After forcing a reboot with the power button, I was able to start X on the next boot. I don't know if there is a relevant bug somewhere, but I will provide the necessary logs in case someone can make sense of them.

Thank you!


dmesg:
http://sprunge.us/ZSeG

Xorg.0.log.old:
http://sprunge.us/aGQM

Xorg.0.log:
http://sprunge.us/GEZK

Looks like you still have the same failure from xcmddc. IMO it's worth investigating/fixing. Will need your vbios though, as I mentioned before.

[    8.700223] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
[    8.700262] IP: [<ffffffffc0a3ca10>] nvkm_i2c_try_acquire_pad+0x40/0x80 [nouveau]
[    8.700265] PGD 2eb8067 PUD 2f1c067 PMD 0 
[    8.700269] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 
[    8.700313] Modules linked in: snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_intel snd_hda_controller snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core snd_hwdep joydev snd_pcm snd_timer hid_generic usbhid hid snd x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp intel_rapl btusb btbcm iwlmvm mac80211 btintel bluetooth iosf_mbi i2c_dev soundcore iwlwifi cfg80211 kvm_intel i915 r8169 rtsx_pci_ms nouveau kvm ttm drm_kms_helper drm crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel intel_gtt thermal processor video psmouse agpgart rtsx_pci_sdmmc rfkill mmc_core memstick mei_me mei lpc_ich rtsx_pci thermal_sys hwmon i2c_algo_bit xhci_pci xhci_hcd mxm_wmi ehci_pci wmi mii microcode i2c_i801 ehci_hcd evdev tpm_infineon serio_raw tpm_tis tpm battery button ac i2c_core loop
[    8.700321] CPU: 7 PID: 406 Comm: xcmddc Tainted: G          I     4.1.6 #2
[    8.700322] Hardware name: Notebook                         W230SS                 /W230SS                 , BIOS 4.6.5 05/13/2014
[    8.700324] task: ffff88041bec4380 ti: ffff8800c613c000 task.ti: ffff8800c613c000
[    8.700366] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffc0a3ca10>]  [<ffffffffc0a3ca10>] nvkm_i2c_try_acquire_pad+0x40/0x80 [nouveau]
[    8.700369] RSP: 0018:ffff8800c613fc38  EFLAGS: 00010286
[    8.700370] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000010000000
[    8.700370] RDX: ffff88041817ec80 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: ffff88041c26d000
[    8.700371] RBP: ffff8800c613fc38 R08: 0000000000018de0 R09: ffff88041d803e00
[    8.700372] R10: ffff88041d803e00 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: ffff88041c26d000
[    8.700372] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff880002ffdd00 R15: ffff88041c26d000
[    8.700373] FS:  00007fa6d1bab780(0000) GS:ffff88042fbc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[    8.700374] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[    8.700375] CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 000000041bd0d000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
[    8.700375] Stack:
[    8.700378]  ffff8800c613fca8 ffffffffc0a3cb1d ffff8800c613fc68 ffff8800c613fe08
[    8.700379]  0000000000008002 ffff8800c613fda8 ffff8800c613fe08 ffffffff811d3e74
[    8.700380]  ffff8800c613fcc8 ffffffff810b7779 ffff88041c26d000 ffff88041c26d398
[    8.700381] Call Trace:
[    8.700412]  [<ffffffffc0a3cb1d>] nvkm_i2c_acquire_pad+0xcd/0x150 [nouveau]
[    8.700422]  [<ffffffff811d3e74>] ? mntput+0x24/0x40
[    8.700433]  [<ffffffff810b7779>] ? update_curr+0xd9/0x160
[    8.700448]  [<ffffffffc0a3c930>] nvkm_i2c_acquire+0x40/0x60 [nouveau]
[    8.700462]  [<ffffffffc0a3e863>] aux_xfer+0x53/0x160 [nouveau]
[    8.700480]  [<ffffffffc000abf5>] __i2c_transfer+0x245/0x440 [i2c_core]
[    8.700484]  [<ffffffffc000ae44>] i2c_transfer+0x54/0x90 [i2c_core]
[    8.700487]  [<ffffffffc000aebf>] i2c_master_send+0x3f/0x50 [i2c_core]
[    8.700490]  [<ffffffffc001e460>] i2cdev_write+0x50/0x70 [i2c_dev]
[    8.700509]  [<ffffffff811b2ad8>] __vfs_write+0x28/0xf0
[    8.700518]  [<ffffffff81cc7982>] ? do_nanosleep+0x82/0x110
[    8.700534]  [<ffffffff815e2733>] ? security_file_permission+0x23/0xa0
[    8.700536]  [<ffffffff811b2f73>] ? rw_verify_area+0x53/0x100
[    8.700538]  [<ffffffff811b3209>] vfs_write+0xa9/0x1b0
[    8.700545]  [<ffffffff810e4180>] ? hrtimer_get_res+0x50/0x50
[    8.700547]  [<ffffffff811b4016>] SyS_write+0x46/0xb0
[    8.700549]  [<ffffffff81cc869b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x6e
[    8.700567] Code: 42 08 48 8b 08 8b 09 81 e1 00 00 00 10 74 ec b8 01 00 00 00 f0 0f c1 42 1c 85 c0 74 36 48 8b 42 28 eb 11 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 <48> 8b 40 08 48 85 c0 74 0f 48 39 c7 75 f2 31 c0 5d c3 66 0f 1f 
[    8.700618] RIP  [<ffffffffc0a3ca10>] nvkm_i2c_try_acquire_pad+0x40/0x80 [nouveau]
[    8.700622]  RSP <ffff8800c613fc38>
[    8.700622] CR2: 0000000000000008

Hi Ilia, I appreciate your help. This directory is empty: /sys/kernel/debug/

Is there anywhere else I can look?

Make sure that debugfs is mounted. e.g.

mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug

Ah, I did not know that! Learning is fun.  :-)

As requested, vbios.rom:

http://sprunge.us/fLiF

Also the system is still experiencing a hard lock up after a few minutes, so this is definitely worth investigating.

Please attach files here.

Sorry, trying to do this from my phone, since the computer will not stay on for more than a few minutes.

Add nouveau.modeset=0 to your kernel cmdline, that should prevent nouveau from loading. I believe that xcmddc is killing of CPU's one-by-one as nouveau is mishandling something it's asking for.

Created attachment 117904 [details]
/sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/vbios.rom

Thank you, I was able to get it attached.

Ilia, should I change the status of this bug?

Created attachment 118404 [details]
dmesg on linux 4.1.8

Just so you know, I am still getting a hard system freeze on Linux 4.1.8.

http://sprunge.us/OQUT

(In reply to ryanpcmcquen from comment #17)
> Created attachment 118404 [details]
> dmesg on linux 4.1.8
> 
> Just so you know, I am still getting a hard system freeze on Linux 4.1.8.
> 
> http://sprunge.us/OQUT

Are you able to try with a 4.3-rc kernel? This code got reworked to be more sane and hopefully fixes this issue as a side-effect.

(In reply to Ben Skeggs from comment #18)
> Are you able to try with a 4.3-rc kernel? This code got reworked to be more
> sane and hopefully fixes this issue as a side-effect.

Thanks for the reply Ben. X does not work for me on Linux 4.2.1 (it will not start). I just tried compiling Linux 4.3-rc2, but it will not compile, I will try again when rc3 comes out, hopefully that will fix it.

Linux 4.3-rc3 will not compile either, here is the error:

  GEN     arch/x86/lib/inat-tables.c
  CC      arch/x86/lib/inat.o
  CC      arch/x86/lib/insn.o
  AS      arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.o
  AS      arch/x86/lib/memmove_64.o
  AS      arch/x86/lib/memset_64.o
  CC      arch/x86/lib/misc.o
  AS      arch/x86/lib/putuser.o
  AS      arch/x86/lib/rwsem.o
  CC      arch/x86/lib/usercopy.o
  CC      arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.o
  AR      arch/x86/lib/lib.a
  LINK    vmlinux
  LD      vmlinux.o
  MODPOST vmlinux.o
  GEN     .version
  CHK     include/generated/compile.h
  UPD     include/generated/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `hv_machine_crash_shutdown':
mshyperv.c:(.text+0x31dcf): undefined reference to `native_machine_crash_shutdown'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

http://sprunge.us/dPJQ

Is there a patch I can try against nouveau?

Created attachment 119187 [details]
dmesg for linux 4.3-rc7

I haven't had a freeze yet on Linux 4.3-rc7.

Do you notice anything wonky in dmesg?

http://sprunge.us/YEXF

This appears to be fixed in the Nov 19 version of nouveau (git commit 6e6d8ac).

I spoke too soon, the issue seems absent with the latest nouveau driver on Linux 4.2.x+, but still exists on 4.1.x. I now have Xorg 1.18.0 if that makes any difference.

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