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firewalker

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From: Hellas (Greece).

Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 566

Intel HD 3000 (i915) issues (freezes).

Hello.

I face some problems with my Intel HD 3000 (i915) GPU.

Mainly

[drm:intel_pipe_update_end [i915]] *ERROR* Atomic update failure on pipe A (start=1059075 end=1059076)
[Jan 4 17:25] [drm] stuck on render ring
[  +0.000605] [drm] GPU HANG: ecode 6:0:0x87e8effd, in kwin [20369], reason: Ring hung, action: reset
[  +0.001867] drm/i915: Resetting chip after gpu hang
[Jan 4 17:35] [drm:intel_pipe_update_end [i915]] *ERROR* Atomic update failure on pipe A (start=1159454 end=1159455)
[Jan 4 17:39] [drm:intel_pipe_update_end [i915]] *ERROR* Atomic update failure on pipe A (start=1174633 end=1174634)

This will result in a 5~10 second screen freeze (I can hear sound playing). The mouse pointer is moving in most cases. This will occur with 3D programs (e.g. KiCAD 3D viewer).

And a more severe problem that lead to an extensive screen freeze for about 5 minutes. The following problem manifest it self when for example I watch a movie with vlc and fast forward it.

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[14435.117621] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3953 at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:3921 intel_crtc_wait_for_pending_flips+0x1f3/0x200 [i915]()
[14435.117622] Removing stuck page flip
[14435.117623] Modules linked in: sha256_generic hmac drbg ansi_cprng ctr ccm ax25 fuse btusb uvcvideo btrtl btbcm videobuf2_vmalloc btintel bluetooth videobuf2_memops videobuf2_core v4l2_common videodev uas media joydev mousedev arc4 iwldvm iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support dell_wmi intel_rapl sparse_keymap iosf_mbi x86_pkg_temp_thermal snd_hda_codec_hdmi mac80211 intel_powerclamp snd_hda_codec_conexant snd_hda_codec_generic dell_laptop coretemp snd_hda_intel kvm_intel iwlwifi dcdbas kvm snd_hda_codec psmouse crc32_pclmul cfg80211 pcspkr snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_pcm input_leds snd_timer snd led_class thermal atl1c soundcore serio_raw i2c_i801 rfkill evdev mac_hid mei_me mei lpc_ich shpchp ac wmi battery dell_smo8800 sch_fq_codel cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_powersave processor dell_smm_hwmon sg ip_tables
[14435.117656]  x_tables ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 dm_mod usb_storage sr_mod cdrom sd_mod atkbd libps2 crc32c_intel ahci libahci libata xhci_pci xhci_hcd scsi_mod ehci_pci ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common i8042 serio i915 video button intel_gtt i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper drm agpgart
[14435.117670] CPU: 1 PID: 3953 Comm: Xorg Tainted: G     U  W       4.2.5-1-ARCH #1
[14435.117672] Hardware name: Dell Inc.          Dell System Inspiron N411Z/0H8G5G, BIOS A06 09/10/2012
[14435.117673]  c1631967 f34d4ccd 00000000 f0403c8c c14c8e8d f0403ccc f0403cbc c1058457
[14435.117677]  f8312740 f0403cec 00000f71 f831db28 00000f51 f82b9ba3 f82b9ba3 f456c500
[14435.117680]  f710cbc8 f7110000 f0403cd8 c10584ce 00000009 f0403ccc f8312740 f0403cec
[14435.117684] Call Trace:
[14435.117686]  [<c14c8e8d>] dump_stack+0x48/0x69
[14435.117689]  [<c1058457>] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0
[14435.117697]  [<f82b9ba3>] ? intel_crtc_wait_for_pending_flips+0x1f3/0x200 [i915]
[14435.117706]  [<f82b9ba3>] ? intel_crtc_wait_for_pending_flips+0x1f3/0x200 [i915]
[14435.117708]  [<c10584ce>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x3e/0x60
[14435.117716]  [<f82b9ba3>] intel_crtc_wait_for_pending_flips+0x1f3/0x200 [i915]
[14435.117719]  [<c1093e80>] ? wake_atomic_t_function+0x70/0x70
[14435.117728]  [<f82bb417>] intel_begin_crtc_commit+0x1b7/0x1c0 [i915]
[14435.117731]  [<f80808c4>] drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes_on_crtc+0x44/0x1f0 [drm_kms_helper]
[14435.117742]  [<f82d4c9f>] intel_atomic_commit+0x5f/0xf0 [i915]
[14435.117746]  [<f80d3c52>] drm_atomic_commit+0x32/0x60 [drm]
[14435.117749]  [<f8080c3c>] drm_atomic_helper_disable_plane+0xcc/0x110 [drm_kms_helper]
[14435.117756]  [<f80c41be>] __setplane_internal+0x20e/0x2e0 [drm]
[14435.117761]  [<f80d2ba4>] ? drm_modeset_lock_all_crtcs+0x84/0x90 [drm]
[14435.117765]  [<f80d2dd9>] ? __drm_modeset_lock_all+0x109/0x130 [drm]
[14435.117770]  [<f80c7a75>] drm_mode_setplane+0x135/0x1d0 [drm]
[14435.117775]  [<f80c7940>] ? drm_plane_check_pixel_format+0x40/0x40 [drm]
[14435.117780]  [<f80b8fb3>] drm_ioctl+0x143/0x560 [drm]
[14435.117782]  [<c14cd8ad>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0xd/0x10
[14435.117786]  [<f80c7940>] ? drm_plane_check_pixel_format+0x40/0x40 [drm]
[14435.117789]  [<c117d9f3>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x1c3/0x1e0
[14435.117791]  [<c11a8ba4>] ? dentry_free+0x44/0x90
[14435.117793]  [<c11ac068>] ? evict+0xe8/0x160
[14435.117795]  [<c11a8ba4>] ? dentry_free+0x44/0x90
[14435.117799]  [<f80b8e70>] ? drm_copy_field+0x60/0x60 [drm]
[14435.117802]  [<c11a4b92>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2e2/0x500
[14435.117804]  [<c1062337>] ? recalc_sigpending+0x17/0x50
[14435.117806]  [<c1062f6c>] ? __set_task_blocked+0x3c/0xa0
[14435.117808]  [<c11adffb>] ? __fget+0x6b/0xc0
[14435.117811]  [<c11a4e30>] SyS_ioctl+0x80/0x90
[14435.117813]  [<c14cded7>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x12
[14435.117814] ---[ end trace 9e1b1f8d85bd8633 ]---

Settings

i915.semaphores=1 i915.i915_enable_rc6=7 i915.i915_enable_fbc=1

Section "Device"
        Identifier "HD 3000"
        Driver     "Intel"
        Option     "Backlight"   "intel_backlight"
        Option     "AccelMethod" "sna"
        Option     "DRI"         "3"
        Option     "TearFree"    "true" 
EndSection

I have tested both SNA and UXA. There is no change it the presence of the fault.

I have also tested 

Option     "SwapbuffersWait" "false"

I can;t exactly pin point when the problem it started. The last couple of months?

Any suggestions? Should I fill another upstream kernel bug report?

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graysky

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Re: Intel HD 3000 (i915) issues (freezes).

I assume you added the kernel boot lines in an attempt to fix?  Does it error out without them and without the /etc/X11/*conf?

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Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: Intel HD 3000 (i915) issues (freezes).

Semaphores is known to causes freezes. Wouldn't be suprised if DRI3 was the culprit also. For me VDPAU caused freezing personally.

Last edited by Roberth (2016-01-04 20:03:10)

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firewalker

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From: Hellas (Greece).

Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 566

Re: Intel HD 3000 (i915) issues (freezes).

Semaphores an DRI 3 was an attempt to address the issue.

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hoi89

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Registered: 2014-10-10

Posts: 4

Re: Intel HD 3000 (i915) issues (freezes).

Hi Firewalker. Have you found a solution for this already? I seem to have the same problem but have no clue whatsoever about what to do next...

firewalker

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From: Hellas (Greece).

Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 566

Re: Intel HD 3000 (i915) issues (freezes).

No, no solution.  I filled a bug report to the Linux kernel.

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hoi89

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Registered: 2014-10-10

Posts: 4

Re: Intel HD 3000 (i915) issues (freezes).

So this is what i did (this might not be a solution but at least the freezing is now gone for me):

I switched to both the zen and lts kernels for some testing but experienced the freezing too. So after digging for a while in forums I decided to disable the automatic core dumps based on /etc/systemd/coredump.conf.d/custom.conf, which are considered to impact performance and security according to the arch wiki.

I removed redshift and disabled bluetooth, which were displaying some errors in my logs.

I did a system update to see if some updates could make a difference. After that I worked with heavy loads for some hours on my arch system including running a virtual machine on Virtualbox and installing software at the same time. No issues right now. If something changes I will report it here, but this seems to be happening with 4.* Kernel users.