Re: -stable from today dumps core with drm-510-kmod and some graphical clients

From: Marek Zarychta <zarychtam_at_plan-b.pwste.edu.pl>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:57:17 UTC
W dniu 27.03.2023 o 23:56, Cy Schubert pisze:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:43:35 +0200
> Mathias Picker <Mathias.Picker@virtual-earth.de> wrote:
>
>> Am 27. März 2023 23:05:35 MESZ schrieb Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>:
>>> In message <8b47d0a4-a8f1-1841-ee59-3949fe69cbd7@ShaneWare.Biz>, Shane
>>> Ambler w
>>> rites:
>>>> On 26/3/23 01:37, Mathias Picker wrote:
>>>>> Starting sddm works fine, starting my normal session crashes or freezes
>>>>> FreeBSD.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can find no error messages after a reboot.
>>>>>
>>>>> I found out, that I can start xterm or emacs (exwm) without problems,
>>>>> xrandr works with external screen, but once I start anything more
>>>>> demanding (I guess demanding of the GPU) everything freezes or FreeBSD
>>>>> even reboots.
>>>>>
>>>>> “Demanding” means even simple things like qterminal. I tried firefox an
>>>> d
>>>>> blender and then I had it with the reboots and didn’t try anything else.
>>>>> xedit works fine :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I have nothing in the logs, I have no idea where to look or how to debug
>>>>> this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas, tipps, help greatly apreciated.
>>>>
>>>> FreeBSD Developers Handbook Chapter 10: Kernel Debugging
>>>>
>>>> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug/
>>>>
>>>> Running stable, kernel dumps may already be enabled, look in /var/crash
>>>>
>>>> By enabling a kernel dump when it panics (dumpdev="AUTO" in rc.conf) the
>>>> kernel core is saved to swap space, then on reboot gets copied to
>>>> dumpdir (/var/crash) where you can then use kgdb (from devel/gdb) to get
>>>> a stack trace to find where the panic happened.
>>> drm-*-kmod probably needs a rebuild. Likely a data structure changed. In my
>>> experience a simple rebuild of the port solves 90% of drm-*-kmod crash
>>> problems.
>>>   
>> Hi Cy,
>>
>> sorry I didn't mention that, but I did rebuild drm-kmod, I actually do it after every new kernel build, just to be on the safe side.
>>
>> I switched my swap to non-encrypted and will look if I can get any information from the kernel dump tomorrow.
>>
>> Oh, and it's on a Thinkpad X1 Yoga 3rd gen, I just noticed I didn't mention this.
> It may be worth trying drm-515-kmod as some MFC that works with 515 and
> not 510 may have been committed. Linux-KPI commits are the usual
> suspects.
>
> I use drm-515 with 14-CURRENT.

drm-515 with 14-CURRENT works fine, but there is a breakage in drm-510 on stable/13. I built it after kernel update today, but it doesn't load: linker_load_file: /boot/modules/radeonkms.ko - unsupported file type. Loading old module of course leads to immediate panic. I am investigating it.

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Marek Zarychta