Bug 93879 - kernel 4.4.0 causes application lockup and unusable interfaces with radeon hardware
Summary: kernel 4.4.0 causes application lockup and unusable interfaces with radeon ha...
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: DRI
Classification: Unclassified
Component: DRM/Radeon (show other bugs)
Version: XOrg git
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium critical
Assignee: Default DRI bug account
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Reported: 2016-01-27 04:10 UTC by boombatower
Modified: 2019-11-19 09:12 UTC (History)
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sh -c "cat /proc/version; ./scripts/ver_linux; cat /proc/cpuinfo; cat /proc/modules; cat /proc/ioports; cat /proc/iomem; lspci -vvv; cat /proc/scsi/scsi" > env_info (59.37 KB, text/plain)
2016-01-27 04:10 UTC, boombatower
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Description boombatower 2016-01-27 04:10:16 UTC
Created attachment 121320 [details]
sh -c "cat /proc/version; ./scripts/ver_linux; cat /proc/cpuinfo; cat /proc/modules; cat /proc/ioports; cat /proc/iomem; lspci -vvv; cat /proc/scsi/scsi" > env_info

While running Plasma 5 on 4.4.0 the following occurs periodically:
- chromium locks up
- plasma desktop locks up
- unable to enter password on plasma lock screen

A trigger for locking chromium up seems to be to resize the window by dragging to screen edges (top to fullscreen, left to tack up left half of screen, etc). Otherwise, it also seems to somewhat randomly freeze over time.

Reverting to 4.3.x resolves the issues.

Environment
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Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed (20160121) (x86_64)
Kernel version: 4.4.0-1.2 (works on <= 4.3.3-6)
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD TAHITI (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.7.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.1.0
Xorg version: 7.6_1.18.0-5.2
xf86-video-ati version: 7.6.1-1.2
DRI3 enabled
Hardware: Radeon HD 7970 ghz

output from kernel bug reporting guide attached
Comment 1 Michel Dänzer 2016-01-27 04:22:26 UTC
Sounds like it could be the problem discussed in http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-January/098821.html .
Comment 2 boombatower 2016-01-27 04:29:58 UTC
Come to think of it, I did experience that one day but never again.
Comment 3 Franklin Titus 2016-01-27 04:47:26 UTC
I am having similar issue on AMD HD 7870 GPU, openSUSE Tumbleweed, and Kernel 4.4.0-1.2. I cannot say for sure the trigger, however, once the screen locks requiring a password, the password field becomes disabled although mouse and keyboard remain fully functional. In fact, it would seem the entire lock screen becomes unresponsive to both mouse and keyboard, and CTRL+ALT+Backspace needs to be employed in order to restart the session.
Comment 4 Michel Dänzer 2016-01-27 06:33:04 UTC
Can you guys try reverting the commits referenced in http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-January/098823.html ?

Alternatively, can you bisect?
Comment 5 boombatower 2016-01-27 19:06:07 UTC
I had planned to test reverting those commits, but after reading through the thread it seems those commits simply further exposed symptoms of a larger issue that I believe was fixed in http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-January/097880.html.

I am running a 4.4.0 kernel with that patch applied and so far have not seen the issues I described. Although, ironically, on my first boot I had the stuck login screen as described in the thread.
Comment 6 Alex Deucher 2016-01-27 19:30:54 UTC
(In reply to boombatower from comment #5)
> I had planned to test reverting those commits, but after reading through the
> thread it seems those commits simply further exposed symptoms of a larger
> issue that I believe was fixed in
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-January/097880.html.
> 
> I am running a 4.4.0 kernel with that patch applied and so far have not seen
> the issues I described. Although, ironically, on my first boot I had the
> stuck login screen as described in the thread.

Different issues.
Comment 7 thomas.lassdiesonnerein 2016-01-28 06:45:54 UTC
Happens for me sometimes too. Just some minutes ago when I right clicked on the network-manager icon the whole desktop froze more or less. I could move the mouse pointer some times but nothing was clickable. Could switch to tty1 but even that was super-slow recognizing keyboard inputs. Needed to  strg+alt+2xbackspace to kill X. After that everything fine.

Latest openSUSE Tumbleweed x64 on AMD APU A8 7600
Which logs do you need?
Comment 8 Michel Dänzer 2016-01-28 07:02:05 UTC
(In reply to langkamp from comment #7)
> Which logs do you need?

Does your problem only happen with 4.4 kernels, not 4.3 or older? If so, please try reverting the changes referenced in comment 4. Otherwise, please file your own report.
Comment 9 thomas.lassdiesonnerein 2016-01-28 11:00:19 UTC
(In reply to Michel Dänzer from comment #8)
> (In reply to langkamp from comment #7)
> > Which logs do you need?
> 
> Does your problem only happen with 4.4 kernels, not 4.3 or older? If so,
> please try reverting the changes referenced in comment 4. Otherwise, please
> file your own report.

Just found the culprit. At least this time it was a memory leak in a beta of kdeconnect. It ate up all my memory so the system needed to swap like crazy. It does only happen when the pc is idling for some time. And this happened with older kernel too. This morning it was the same cause (I remember kswapd was active), but I overlooked the memory consumption in top - sorry - my bad. So no problem here. Maybe its chromium related. I use firefox. I can later check if I can reproduce with chromium on 4.4, I am currently on 4.2 kernel
Comment 10 boombatower 2016-01-28 23:00:53 UTC
I have been running a patch radeon module (the reverted commits mentioned) on 4.4.0 kernel and have not seen the issues.

See this for the specific revert patches applied:
- https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:tiwai:bnc962535/radeon

I'd suggest that Franklin tests it since we have spoken in IRC and see the same symtoms.
Comment 11 thomas.lassdiesonnerein 2016-01-29 06:48:33 UTC
I tried again with 4.4.0 Tumbleweed on my APU system. I can not trigger the problem here. Resizing chromium and snapping to the edges etc. all works. Tried every kwin combination of EGL GLX and openGL 3.1 2.0. So APU Systems may have never been affected (or the mesa-update 11.1.1 yesterday evening helped).
Comment 12 Martin Peres 2019-11-19 09:12:42 UTC
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