Since 4.7 kernel, qxl drm driver spews the errors when using VT: kernel: [TTM] Buffer eviction failed kernel: qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (4026540032, 0x00000001) kernel: [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to allocate VRAM BO In my test case, just install a QEMU/KVM VM with QXL interface, login GUI, and then switch to VT1. At login there, the error appears repeatedly. 4.6 kernel works fine. The git bisection spotted that it was introduced by 6819c3c2517604f979da3de773f2420e07dd4f4b drm/qxl: Use drm_fb_helper deferred_io support This was originally reported for opensuse TW: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1003298
OK, I found out the culprit. It's the race of dirty update callback and the dirty clip update. The schedule_work() in drm_fb_helper_dirty() must be inside the spinlock. Otherwise the concurrent calls may conflict, one clears the clip while the another is called after that with the cleared clip area. I'll post the patch soon later.
I can confirm this bug remains in the 4.8 kernel as well. KVM with Archlinux guest (virt-manager defaults, except for window scaling) results in the following message displayed between every command: [TTM] Byffer eviction failed qxl 0000:00:02:0: object_init failed for (402650032, 0x00000001) [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl1] *ERROR* failed to allocate VRAM BO Arch kernel package: linux-4.8.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Hi, Freedesktop's Bugzilla instance is EOLed and open bugs are about to be migrated to http://gitlab.freedesktop.org. To avoid migrating out of date bugs, I am now closing all the bugs that did not see any activity in the past year. If the issue is still happening, please create a new bug in the relevant project at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm (use misc by default). Sorry about the noise!
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