recent commit causes lock up
Alexander Best
arundel at freebsd.org
Fri Aug 12 14:13:21 UTC 2011
On Fri Aug 12 11, Test Rat wrote:
> Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org> writes:
>
> > hi there,
> >
> > running r224715 i'm having no problems what so ever. after upgrading my kernel
> > to r224784, i'm experiencing fatal lock ups, where only a hard reset will
> > resolve the problem.
> >
> > the lock up happend two times while running chromium with only a decent number
> > of tabs (~ 5). also the lock up occured only after ~ 5 minutes uptime and an
> > uptime of chromium of only ~ 2 minutes.
> >
> > i've now reverted my kernel back to r224715 and everything's working again.
>
> Do you use x11/nvidia-driver? In r224778 fget(9) KPI changed which broke
> the port in src/nvidia_linux.c:linux_ioctl_nvidia(). It's probably only
> called when using linuxolator, e.g. flash plugin. Try below workaround.
thanks i'll try the patch later on. indeed i'm using the nvidia drivers and i
think the freeze might in fact be related to flash.
did r224778 introduce a version bump of freebsd?
cheers.
alex
>
> %%
> --- src/nvidia_linux.c~
> +++ src/nvidia_linux.c
> @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
> #include "machine/../linux32/linux32_proto.h"
> #endif
>
> +#include <sys/capability.h>
> +
> int linux_ioctl_nvidia(d_thread_t *, struct linux_ioctl_args *);
>
> int linux_ioctl_nvidia(
> @@ -37,7 +39,7 @@ int linux_ioctl_nvidia(
> int error;
> u_long cmd;
>
> - if ((error = fget(td, args->fd, &fp)) != 0)
> + if ((error = fget(td, args->fd, CAP_IOCTL, &fp)) != 0)
> return error;
>
> cmd = args->cmd;
> %%
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