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#1 2021-01-02 21:25:52

YuutaW
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i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

Hi all, starting Dec. 31, I frequently experience i915 freezing everyday. I suspect that the guilty packages could be Intel driver or kernel. Here's the timeline:

Dec. 30 / 2020
Noon: Upgraded xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+913+g9236c582-1 -> 1:2.99.917+914+ga511f22c-1
Night: Sleep, shutdown.

Dec. 31 / 2020
Afternoon: Upgraded intel-media-driver 20.4.3-1 -> 20.4.5-1, intel-gmmlib 20.4.3-1 -> 20.4.5-1 and linux 5.9.14.arch1-1 -> 5.10.3.arch1-1
I rebooted 38 minutes later (that's not a freeze)
Three hours after boot, it freezed (the first time). I did not find anything in journal, and I forget to check kernel message and /sys. Rebooted, but Xorg and the Intel driver process is in D state so I forced reboot.
Night: Sleep, shutdown.

Jan. 1 / 2021
Night: Freezed. This time, I still did not find anything in journal, but I found some errors in the kernel message (see below). I forget to check /sys. Rebooted, and the process hanged as the previous case
After rebooting I found the WiFi NIC crashes. That's not related to the GPU but I rebooted here.
Five minutes after the reboot, I upgraded mesa 20.3.1-1 -> 20.3.2-2 and vulkan-intel 20.3.1-1 -> 20.3.2-2
After two hours and twenty minutes, it freezed again. Still, I did not check /sys. Rebooted, and processes hanged as the previous case.
Night: Sleep, shutdown.

Jan. 2 / 2021
Afternoon: It freezed again. Same as the previous case.

There's no logs in kernel messages and journal before and after the freeze. The only thing I found in kernel message is:

kernel: Workqueue: events_highpri intel_atomic_cleanup_work [i915]
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel:  __schedule+0x295/0x810
kernel:  schedule+0x5b/0xc0
kernel:  schedule_preempt_disabled+0x11/0x20
kernel:  __ww_mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x4bd/0x810
kernel:  intel_unpin_fb_vma+0x25/0xa0 [i915]
kernel:  drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes+0x52/0x70 [drm_kms_helper]
kernel:  intel_atomic_cleanup_work+0x67/0x110 [i915]
kernel:  process_one_work+0x1d6/0x3a0
kernel:  worker_thread+0x4d/0x3d0
kernel:  ? rescuer_thread+0x410/0x410
kernel:  kthread+0x133/0x150
kernel:  ? __kthread_bind_mask+0x60/0x60
kernel:  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

The freeze happens randomly, and I cannot re-produce it now, but it happens frequently. The suspicious packages include kernel, xf86-video-intel, intel-media-driver and intel-gmmlib. Are there anyone else experienced the same thing? Is it a bug? How can I resolve it? What's the reason? Are there anything I can do to get more information if it happens again? Thanks.

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#2 2021-01-02 22:08:15

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Re: i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

You could try removing xf86-video-intel and using the kernel's native modesetting; it works better for most setups.


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#3 2021-01-02 22:32:07

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Re: i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

jasonwryan wrote:

You could try removing xf86-video-intel and using the kernel's native modesetting; it works better for most setups.

Thanks. I would try that out. Will there be any performance affects?

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#4 2021-01-02 22:35:19

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Re: i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

I removed xf86-video-intel, and rebooted. I will report any issues if found.

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#5 2021-01-03 12:02:12

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Re: i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

Do you by any chance have monitor connected by HDMI? I have (and someone else) a problem with drm/i915/Xorg: after monitor goes to power save mode, Xorg hang indefinitely due to crash in drm/i915 module and keyboard becomes irresponsible. If you have the same problem (I don't use xf86-video-intel almost an year now and didn't see any drawbacks) show your dmesg output. See these posts: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1947353 and this https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1947354

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#6 2021-01-03 20:00:40

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Re: i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

lomov_vl wrote:

Do you by any chance have monitor connected by HDMI? I have (and someone else) a problem with drm/i915/Xorg: after monitor goes to power save mode, Xorg hang indefinitely due to crash in drm/i915 module and keyboard becomes irresponsible. If you have the same problem (I don't use xf86-video-intel almost an year now and didn't see any drawbacks) show your dmesg output. See these posts: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1947353 and this https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1947354

Yes, on Jun. 2 I experienced freezing even with an external monitor connected. However, none of the freezes happened when they are in power save mode: in fact, they all happen when I'm working, either chatting online or writing code, etc.

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#7 2021-01-03 20:02:19

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Re: i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

Update: After removed the driver and switched to mode setting, I have not experienced freezing for one day. However, I encountered problems watching some YouTube video using Chromium. The audio seems working, but the video is always white screen. I had enabled hardware accelerated decoding weeks ago, is the driver required to watch videos?

chrome://gpu report:

Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Hardware accelerated
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Out-of-process Rasterization: Hardware accelerated
OpenGL: Enabled
Hardware Protected Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
Rasterization: Hardware accelerated on all pages
Skia Renderer: Enabled
Video Decode: Hardware accelerated
Vulkan: Enabled
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
WebGL2: Hardware accelerated

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#8 2021-01-03 20:55:15

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Re: i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

That's a separate issue. Please mark this thread as solved and begin a new thread with details about the Chromium/YouTube problem.


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#9 2021-01-04 05:59:46

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Re: i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

jasonwryan wrote:

That's a separate issue. Please mark this thread as solved and begin a new thread with details about the Chromium/YouTube problem.

Yes I know. I'm just mentioning it here.

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#10 2021-01-04 06:02:09

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Re: i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

YuutaW wrote:
jasonwryan wrote:

That's a separate issue. Please mark this thread as solved and begin a new thread with details about the Chromium/YouTube problem.

Yes I know. I'm just mentioning it here.

Dont: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post


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#11 2021-01-04 13:25:12

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Re: i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

YuutaW wrote:

The freeze happens randomly, and I cannot re-produce it now, but it happens frequently. The suspicious packages include kernel, xf86-video-intel, intel-media-driver and intel-gmmlib. Are there anyone else experienced the same thing? Is it a bug? How can I resolve it? What's the reason? Are there anything I can do to get more information if it happens again? Thanks.

I'm having the same issue. Testing without the xf86-video-intel now. When booting i had to put on the grub line "quiet splash", because for some reason it froze the first time i rebooted. No problems with youtube though.

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#12 2021-01-04 15:47:43

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Re: i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

I'm also having this issue on one of my four machines using xf86-video-intel. The hardware is the ivybridge integrated HD 4000 GPU. Unfortunately I can't test if this still happens without xf86-video-intel as X won't even start without it. So far this has only happened when playing videos. Since the sound keeps playing I assumed it was just X freezing. The Xorg logfiles don't really reveal anything but looking through journalctl I can see that several graphical applications like my session manager complain about "XIO: fatal IO error".

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#13 2021-01-04 20:48:40

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Re: i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

jasonwryan wrote:
YuutaW wrote:
jasonwryan wrote:

That's a separate issue. Please mark this thread as solved and begin a new thread with details about the Chromium/YouTube problem.

Yes I know. I'm just mentioning it here.

Dont: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

Okey, I will post another post if I have any other issues.

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#14 2021-01-06 19:48:37

yman
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Re: i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

I found this issue on freedesktop Gitlab: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/2905
Looks similar. Reported my findings there and downgraded to 5.9.14.arch1-1.

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#15 2021-01-07 16:44:54

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Re: i915 started frequently freezing after recent upgrades

yman wrote:

I found this issue on freedesktop Gitlab: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/2905
Looks similar. Reported my findings there and downgraded to 5.9.14.arch1-1.

This looks similar. I will follow this issue as well.

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