Bug 73619 - XServer frequently freezes for a few seconds
Summary: XServer frequently freezes for a few seconds
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: Mesa
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Drivers/Gallium/r600 (show other bugs)
Version: 10.0
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Default DRI bug account
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Reported: 2014-01-14 17:38 UTC by Alexander Richardson
Modified: 2019-09-18 19:12 UTC (History)
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2014-01-14 21:06 UTC, Alexander Richardson
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Description Alexander Richardson 2014-01-14 17:38:43 UTC
The XServer randomly freezes for a few seconds or sometimes even 1-2 minutes. I cannot move the mouse, and the screen does not update.

I have a HD4850 card running on a 
3.12.6-1.g080d0df-desktop SMP PREEMPT x86_64 kernel with Mesa 10.0.1 (both from openSuSE packages). These freezes also happen with the default 3.11 kernel, I upgraded in the hope of it being fixed, but the issue is still present.

These issues started after the upgrade to openSuSE 13.1 which has a 3.11 kernel instead of the previous 3.7 kernel. The Mesa version did not change, I was always running the latest released version. My guess is it has something to do with the r600 kernel changes in 3.8+.

During these freeze periods I can ssh into my system and top shows no CPU usage, so the XServer seems to be sleeping instead of being in a busy loop.
dmesg gives me no messages and /var/log/XOrg.0.log is also empty.

I don't know how to get any more detailed logging output. If you provide me with the necessary environment variables/kernel parameters I will give you these logs.

Not sure if this helps, but most of the time the freeze happens when I open a new tab in firefox or switch to a different one. However it also happens at random intervals using other programs.
It can sometimes take quite a long time until this freeze happens, however once it has occured once, it usually happens again after a short timespan (1-2 minutes or even less).

Is it possible to debug the XServer just like a normal program using gdb? If yes I will try to provide a useful backtrace once the next longer freeze happens
Comment 1 Alex Deucher 2014-01-14 18:41:30 UTC
Please attach your xorg log and dmesg output.  Any chance you could bisect?
Comment 2 Alexander Richardson 2014-01-14 21:06:10 UTC
Created attachment 92092 [details]
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Bisecting is quite tricky, I have so far only used the binary kernel packages. 
I can try, however it will probably take a long time until I find something useful if at all. I am not sure when I can call a version good because sometimes the system can run fine for multiple hours and only then start having these freezes.
I currently don't have the time to bisect, so I was hoping there would be some kernel parameters to increase verbosity.

Would running a debug kernel be of any use?
Comment 3 Alexander Richardson 2014-01-20 13:05:12 UTC
I have now upgraded to Mesa 10.0.2 and it is MUCH better. Freeze only happens very rarely now. Maybe some unrelated change made a race condition that causes this very unlikely. Sadly still don't have the time to bisect the kernel.
Comment 4 Alexander Richardson 2014-03-18 11:53:05 UTC
I recently had another freeze and was able to attach gdb via ssh, this is the backtrace I got:

Thread 2 (Thread 0x7fca267f1980 (LWP 868)):
#0  0x00007fca247161e7 in ioctl () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:81
No locals.
#1  0x00007fca257e1da4 in drmIoctl (fd=10, request=request@entry=3223348317, arg=arg@entry=0x7fff56fbe6b0) at xf86drm.c:167
        ret = <optimized out>
#2  0x00007fca257e414f in drmCommandWriteRead (fd=<optimized out>, drmCommandIndex=drmCommandIndex@entry=29, data=data@entry=0x7fff56fbe6b0, size=size@entry=32) at xf86drm.c:2451
        request = 3223348317
#3  0x00007fca1ff12463 in bo_open (bom=0x1ba44e0, handle=0, size=121397248, alignment=512, domains=4, flags=0) at radeon_bo_gem.c:108
        args = {
          size = 121397248, 
          alignment = 512, 
          handle = 1737, 
          initial_domain = 4, 
          flags = 0
        }
        bo = 0x2a4f140
        r = <optimized out>
#4  0x00007fca20169e08 in radeon_alloc_pixmap_bo (pScrn=pScrn@entry=0x1b9aca0, width=width@entry=3648, height=height@entry=8172, depth=depth@entry=32, usage_hint=usage_hint@entry=0, bitsPerPixel=bitsPerPixel@entry=32, new_pitch=new_pitch@entry=0x7fff56fbf55c, new_surface=new_surface@entry=0x2ae6600, new_tiling=new_tiling@entry=0x2ae65f8) at radeon_bo_helper.c:179
        info = 0x1b9b3d0
        pitch = 14848
        base_align = <optimized out>
        size = <optimized out>
        heighta = <optimized out>
        cpp = 4
        tiling = 0
        surface = {
          npix_x = 3648, 
          npix_y = 8176, 
          npix_z = 1, 
          blk_w = 1, 
          blk_h = 1, 
          blk_d = 1, 
          array_size = 1, 
          last_level = 0, 
          bpe = 4, 
          nsamples = 1, 
          flags = 1114113, 
          bo_size = 121397248, 
          bo_alignment = 512, 
          bankw = 0, 
          bankh = 0, 
          mtilea = 0, 
          tile_split = 0, 
          stencil_tile_split = 0, 
          stencil_offset = 0, 
          level = {{
              offset = 0, 
              slice_size = 121397248, 
              npix_x = 3648, 
              npix_y = 8176, 
              npix_z = 1, 
              nblk_x = 3712, 
              nblk_y = 8176, 
              nblk_z = 1, 
              pitch_bytes = 14848, 
              mode = 0
            }, {
              offset = 0, 
              slice_size = 0, 
              npix_x = 0, 
              npix_y = 0, 
              npix_z = 0, 
              nblk_x = 0, 
              nblk_y = 0, 
              nblk_z = 0, 
              pitch_bytes = 0, 
              mode = 0
            } <repeats 31 times>}, 
          stencil_level = {{
              offset = 0, 
              slice_size = 0, 
              npix_x = 0, 
              npix_y = 0, 
              npix_z = 0, 
              nblk_x = 0, 
              nblk_y = 0, 
              nblk_z = 0, 
              pitch_bytes = 0, 
              mode = 0
            } <repeats 32 times>}, 
          tiling_index = {0 <repeats 32 times>}, 
          stencil_tiling_index = {0 <repeats 32 times>}
        }
        bo = <optimized out>
        domain = 4
#5  0x00007fca2013c527 in RADEONEXACreatePixmap2 (pScreen=<optimized out>, width=3648, height=8172, depth=32, usage_hint=0, bitsPerPixel=32, new_pitch=0x7fff56fbf55c) at radeon_exa.c:289
        pScrn = 0x1b9aca0
        info = <optimized out>
        new_priv = 0x2ae65f0
#6  0x00007fca1fd00068 in exaCreateDriverPixmap_mixed (pPixmap=0x2da61c0) at exa_migration_mixed.c:61
        new_pitch = 0
        pScreen = 0x1ba3b20
        w = <optimized out>
        h = 8172
        depth = <optimized out>
        bpp = <optimized out>
        usage_hint = 0
        paddedWidth = 14592
#7  0x00007fca1fd002b0 in exaDoMigration_mixed (pixmaps=0x7fff56fbf660, npixmaps=-1071618979, can_accel=535884672) at exa_migration_mixed.c:104
        pPixmap = 0x2da61c0
#8  0x00007fca1fd00dd4 in exaDoPutImage (depth=32, src_stride=14592, bits=0x36b7dc8 "", format=2, h=17, w=3648, y=0, x=0, pGC=0x20cc090, pDrawable=0x2da61c0) at exa_accel.c:179
        pixmaps = {{
            as_dst = 1, 
            as_src = 0, 
            pPix = 0x2da61c0, 
            pReg = 0x58
          }}
        nbox = <optimized out>
        pPix = <optimized out>
        xoff = 0
        ret = 1
        pClip = <optimized out>
        pbox = <optimized out>
        yoff = 1
        bpp = 32
#9  exaPutImage (pDrawable=0x2da61c0, pGC=0x20cc090, depth=32, x=0, y=0, w=3648, h=17, leftPad=0, format=2, bits=0x36b7dc8 "") at exa_accel.c:233
No locals.
#10 0x0000000000519819 in damagePutImage (pDrawable=0x2da61c0, pGC=0x20cc090, depth=32, x=0, y=0, w=<optimized out>, h=17, leftPad=0, format=2, pImage=0x36b7dc8 "") at damage.c:736
        oldFuncs = 0x8162c0 <damageGCFuncs>
#11 0x000000000043a189 in ProcPutImage (client=0x2a4d3f0) at dispatch.c:1968
        pGC = 0x20cc090
        pDraw = 0x2da61c0
        length = <optimized out>
        lengthProto = <optimized out>
        tmpImage = 0x36b7dc8 ""
        stuff = 0x36b7db0
#12 0x000000000043d23e in Dispatch () at dispatch.c:433
        clientReady = 0x1f600c0
        result = <optimized out>
        client = 0x2a4d3f0
        nready = 0
        icheck = 0x820590 <checkForInput>
        start_tick = 178795
#13 0x000000000044106a in dix_main (argc=8, argv=0x7fff56fbf948, envp=<optimized out>) at main.c:294
        i = <optimized out>
        alwaysCheckForInput = {0, 1}
#14 0x00007fca24657be5 in __libc_start_main (main=0x42c5d0 <main>, argc=8, argv=0x7fff56fbf948, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fff56fbf938) at libc-start.c:269
        result = <optimized out>
        unwind_buf = {
          cancel_jmp_buf = {{
              jmp_buf = {0, -524547331697071748, 4376024, 140734652741952, 0, 0, 524320866477091196, 516830052716587388}, 
              mask_was_saved = 0
            }}, 
          priv = {
            pad = {0x0, 0x0, 0x59b9b0 <__libc_csu_init>, 0x7fff56fbf948}, 
            data = {
              prev = 0x0, 
              cleanup = 0x0, 
              canceltype = 5880240
            }
          }
        }
        not_first_call = <optimized out>
#15 0x000000000042c601 in _start () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/start.S:122
No locals.

Thread 1 (Thread 0x7fca19dfe700 (LWP 883)):
#0  pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_cond_wait.S:185
No locals.
#1  0x00007fca1f515ec3 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so
No symbol table info available.
#2  0x00007fca1f515807 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/dri/r600_dri.so
No symbol table info available.
#3  0x00007fca259f20db in start_thread (arg=0x7fca19dfe700) at pthread_create.c:309
        __res = <optimized out>
        pd = 0x7fca19dfe700
        now = <optimized out>
        unwind_buf = {
          cancel_jmp_buf = {{
              jmp_buf = {140505994225408, -524547331697071748, 0, 140506206253056, 140506085630131, 140505994225408, 516890606489905532, 516829586942404988}, 
              mask_was_saved = 0
            }}, 
          priv = {
            pad = {0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, 
            data = {
              prev = 0x0, 
              cleanup = 0x0, 
              canceltype = 0
            }
          }
        }
        not_first_call = <optimized out>
        pagesize_m1 = <optimized out>
        sp = <optimized out>
        freesize = <optimized out>
        __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "start_thread"
#4  0x00007fca2471d90d in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:111
No locals.



Looks like it is somehow freezing when calling the DRM_RADEON_GEM_CREATE ioctl, but maybe gdb attaching causes the freeze to end and this is just afterwards.
Hope it is of some use.
Comment 5 Benjamin Bellec 2014-03-19 20:27:05 UTC
Does the freeze happens also with the stock openSUSE mesa (9.2.2)?
Comment 6 GitLab Migration User 2019-09-18 19:12:48 UTC
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