Re: diagnosing freezes (DRI?)

2009-04-10 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 4/10/09, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: > On 2009-04-10 13:31:33, Robert Noland wrote: >> >> If it is locking the whole system, then a core is really our best shot. >> If you can extract anything useful from xorg.log or setting >> hw.dri.0.debug that also might be of use. >> >> I'm running on

FreeBSD memguard + spinlocks

2009-04-10 Thread Andrew Brampton
Hi, I'm having a problem with memguard(9) on FreeBSD 7.1 but before I ask about that I just need to check my facts about malloc. When in interrupt context malloc must be called with M_NOWAIT, this is because I can't sleep inside a interrupt. Now when I hold a spinlock (MTX_SPIN) I am also not allo

Re: diagnosing freezes (DRI?)

2009-04-10 Thread xorquewasp
On 2009-04-10 13:31:33, Robert Noland wrote: > > If it is locking the whole system, then a core is really our best shot. > If you can extract anything useful from xorg.log or setting > hw.dri.0.debug that also might be of use. > > I'm running on 2 cores, but it is possible that some locking issue

Re: diagnosing freezes (DRI?)

2009-04-10 Thread Robert Noland
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 18:59 +0100, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hello. > > On 2009-04-10 12:42:48, Robert Noland wrote: > > > > Are you running powerd by chance? I was seeing an issue that seemed to > > be related to powerd. Since I've disabled it on that box, it hasn't > > hung up any mo

Re: diagnosing freezes (DRI?)

2009-04-10 Thread xorquewasp
Hello. On 2009-04-10 12:42:48, Robert Noland wrote: > > Are you running powerd by chance? I was seeing an issue that seemed to > be related to powerd. Since I've disabled it on that box, it hasn't > hung up any more. I'm not running powerd, no. > > As far as drm is concerned, I've been runni

Re: diagnosing freezes (DRI?)

2009-04-10 Thread Robert Noland
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 16:42 +0100, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hello. > > Recently bought a new system and am experiencing problems with system freezes. > I think the most likely culprit is DRI. The freezes occur apparently at > random. > I've disabled drm.ko and radeon.ko and the system d

Re: diagnosing freezes (DRI?)

2009-04-10 Thread xorquewasp
Hello. Recently bought a new system and am experiencing problems with system freezes. I think the most likely culprit is DRI. The freezes occur apparently at random. I've disabled drm.ko and radeon.ko and the system doesn't appear to have frozen yet. I'm running 7.2-PRERELEASE (STABLE as of yeste

Re: compiling root filesystem into kernel (preferably tmpfs root filesystem)

2009-04-10 Thread David Naylor
On Thursday 09 April 2009 08:34:22 Travis Daygale wrote: > David, thank you for the great information!  Yes, I would appreciate seeing > the scripts and hearing about the other method you outline.   Yes, you > understand what I want to achieve exactly. Please see attached for the scripts. There i