Bug 219377 (nv-sync-of-doom)

Summary: nv lockup (from jorris@)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nvAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
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Version: 9CC: charlieb-fedora-bugzilla, djansa, duffy, dzickus, jorris, mcepl, nstraz, xgl-maint
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Description Adam Jackson 2006-12-12 20:38:28 UTC
Description of problem:

Lockup while switching desktops.  Something like:

#0  0x00002aaaac054c49 in NVSync (pScrn=0x9f6f40) at nv_xaa.c:305
        pNv = (NVPtr) 0x9f7670
#1  0x00002aaaae14dbb6 in XAACopyAreaFallback (pSrc=0x1f04ba0, pDst=0x107a6f0, 
    pGC=0x1db3360, srcx=0, srcy=0, width=1280, height=24, dstx=0, dsty=0)
    at xaaFallback.c:84
        infoRec = (XAAInfoRecPtr) 0xa27840
        ret = (RegionPtr) 0x2200
        pGCPriv = (XAAGCPtr) 0x1db3450
        oldFuncs = (GCFuncs *) 0x7b6cc0
#2  0x0000000000512b94 in cwCopyArea (pSrc=0x1f04ba0, pDst=0x107a6f0, 
    pGC=0x1db3360, srcx=0, srcy=0, w=1280, h=24, dstx=0, dsty=0)
    at cw_ops.c:202
        pGCPrivate = (cwGCPtr) 0x1db3498
        dst_off_x = 0
        dst_off_y = 0
        pBackingDst = (DrawablePtr) 0x107a6f0
        pBackingGC = (GCPtr) 0x1db3360
        src_off_x = 0
        src_off_y = 0
        pBackingSrc = (DrawablePtr) 0x1f04ba0
#3  0x000000000050e713 in damageCopyArea (pSrc=0x1f04ba0, pDst=0x107a6f0, 
    pGC=0x1db3360, srcx=0, srcy=0, width=1280, height=24, dstx=0, dsty=0)
    at damage.c:790
        ret = (RegionPtr) 0x2200
        pGCPriv = (DamageGCPrivPtr) 0x1db3488
        oldFuncs = (GCFuncs *) 0x7b7720
#4  0x00000000004480ae in ProcCopyArea (client=0xab1f70) at dispatch.c:1743
        pDst = (DrawablePtr) 0x107a6f0
        pSrc = (DrawablePtr) 0x9f6f40
        pGC = (GC *) 0x1db3360
        pRgn = <value optimized out>
#5  0x0000000000449c9a in Dispatch () at dispatch.c:459
        clientReady = <value optimized out>
        result = <value optimized out>
        client = <value optimized out>
        nready = 0
        start_tick = 1089520
#6  0x00000000004325d5 in main (argc=10, argv=0x7fffd14afe08, 
    envp=<value optimized out>) at main.c:447
        pScreen = <value optimized out>
        i = 1
        error = 0
        xauthfile = <value optimized out>
        alwaysCheckForInput = {0, 1}

xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-48.5.el5
xorg-x11-drv-nv-1.2.0-4.fc6

On amd64, but doesn't look platform specific.  nv_xaa.c:305 is just the infinite
loop waiting for the instruction breadcrumb to catch up.

Don't have an immediate solution for this, but it looks like there's been a bit
of work in this area in nouveau.  In particular the "dma" queue is sized
differently, and there's some timeout code for when things go south.  That plus
a GPU reset could be good enough...

Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2006-12-12 20:42:37 UTC
Also of note is that gdb is trash and won't let you inspect *pNv->REGS, at least
with:

gdb-6.5-15.el5
kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.2767.el5

Gives you something special like:

(gdb) set debug target 1
(gdb) print *pNv->REGS
child:target_xfer_partial (2, (null), 0x2afadd0,  0x0,  0x9f7818, 8) = 8, bytes =
 00 50 af ac aa 2a 00 00
child:target_xfer_partial (2, (null), 0x2da61b0,  0x0,  0x2aaaacaf5000, 4) = 0
exec:target_xfer_partial (2, (null), 0x2da61b0,  0x0,  0x2aaaacaf5000, 4) = 0
None:target_xfer_partial (2, (null), 0x2da61b0,  0x0,  0x2aaaacaf5000, 4) = -1
Cannot access memory at address 0x2aaaacaf5000

Comment 5 Jon Orris 2007-01-31 20:03:12 UTC
The machine may make me a liar in a minute, but it seems more stable now that
I've booted into the non-xen 2.6.18-6.el5 kernel. 

Running xen, its crashed on me 4 times today within 10-15 minutes.


Comment 6 Adam Jackson 2007-04-30 20:57:04 UTC
Moving to devel, this seems like a problem there too.

Comment 7 Chris Lumens 2007-04-30 21:01:13 UTC
Updated backtrace, as it looks like a different codepath.

#0  0x008de652 in NVSync () from /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nv_drv.so
#1  0x00e65379 in XAAGetImage (pDraw=0xa0aadc0, sx=503, sy=66, w=8, h=24,
format=2, planemask=4294967295, pdstLine=0xbfa2b390 "\035") at xaaInit.c:321
#2  0x08119758 in miBSGetImage (pDrawable=0xa0aadc0, sx=503, sy=66, w=8, h=24,
format=2, planemask=4294967295, pdstLine=0xbfa2b390 "\035") at mibstore.c:609
#3  0x08173113 in cwGetImage (pSrc=0xa0aadc0, x=503, y=66, w=8, h=24, format=2,
    planemask=4294967295, pdstLine=0xbfa2b390 "\035") at cw.c:357
#4  0x0812e1dd in miSpriteGetImage (pDrawable=0xa0aadc0, sx=503, sy=66, w=8,
h=24, format=2, planemask=4294967295, pdstLine=0xbfa2b390 "\035") at misprite.c:299
#5  0x08086e75 in DoGetImage (client=0x96ddb38, format=2, drawable=41374925,
x=503, y=66, width=8, height=10448, planemask=4294967295, im_return=0x0) at
dispatch.c:2233
#6  0x08087076 in ProcGetImage (client=0xb75db044) at dispatch.c:2326
#7  0x0814ec91 in XaceCatchDispatchProc (client=0x96ddb38) at xace.c:281
#8  0x0808930a in Dispatch () at dispatch.c:457
#9  0x08071045 in main (argc=9, argv=0xbfa2bca4, envp=Cannot access memory at
address 0xb75db04c
) at main.c:445


Comment 8 Nate Straz 2007-07-25 16:04:01 UTC
*** Bug 248373 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Chris Lumens 2007-09-11 19:36:03 UTC
I haven't seen this in quite a while now.  Removing myself from the CC...

Comment 10 Adam Jackson 2007-10-02 19:51:08 UTC
*** Bug 315861 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Matěj Cepl 2007-10-02 20:22:57 UTC
*** Bug 210584 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Don Zickus 2007-10-12 19:10:34 UTC
just hit this twice within 10 minutes.
both times i was using gitk and scrolling the the kernel commit history.

Comment 13 Don Zickus 2007-10-12 19:22:36 UTC
make it a third time while browsing my mail with mutt

Comment 15 Don Zickus 2008-02-11 04:48:31 UTC
In case anyone cares, I can reproduce this at will by ssh'ing into my box and
running mutt.

Comment 16 Charlie Brady 2008-02-13 15:16:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #15)
> In case anyone cares, I can reproduce this at will by ssh'ing into my box and
> running mutt.

I certainly hope that someone cares, since this is a flaw which requires power
cycle restart to work around.

Comment 17 Don Zickus 2008-02-13 15:32:00 UTC
I work around it by killing the X server.  Usually I am already remotely logged
in when the problem happens so a 'kill -p <pid>' fixes my problem.   Then later
I just have to login as usual and painfully setup my work environment again.



Comment 18 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 02:29:56 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 19 Nate Straz 2008-10-20 13:14:49 UTC
I seem to be hitting this more often with the RHEL 5.3 Client Beta bits.

Comment 20 Don Zickus 2008-10-20 15:01:50 UTC
I'm not sure what happened but upgrading to Fedora 9 (and using a newer proprietary NV driver) has made this problem go away for me (I was using Fedora 7/8).  Of course this doesn't solve the RHEL-5 problems, but just something to note.

-Don

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