Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 10:07:14 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-x11 <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: couple of nvidia-driver issues Message-ID: <20171207100714.GB59559@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5e95dc14-9d3b-e2eb-b89c-f66f7857eb58@FreeBSD.org> References: <07b9dbda-60ef-3643-308f-18a05e8ca958@FreeBSD.org> <20171205140308.GA94043@FreeBSD.org> <5e95dc14-9d3b-e2eb-b89c-f66f7857eb58@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 11:33:51AM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> ...
>
> I've done some work with a debugger and it seems that there is code that does
> something like this:
>
> char *last = NULL;
>
> while (1) {
> ...
>
> The binary patch is here: https://people.freebsd.org/~avg/nvidia-smi.bsdiff
Appreciate taking very close look Andriy.
> It's been a while since I posted the patch and there are no comments yet.
> I can only add that I am running an INVARIANTS and WITNESS enabled kernel all
> the time and before the patch I was getting kernel panics every now and then.
> Since I started using the patch I haven't had a single nvidia panic yet.
I'll collect all the feedback from you over past few weeks and try to update
the driver within couple of days. Thanks!
./danfe
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