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SubjectRe: [Nouveau] [PATCH 09/17] drm/radeon: use common fence implementation for fences
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Christian König
<deathsimple@vodafone.de> wrote:
> Just imagine an application using prime is locking up Radeon and because of
> that gets killed by the user. Nothing else in the system would use the
> Radeon hardware any more and so radeon gets only called by another driver
> waiting patiently for radeon to finish rendering which never happens because
> the whole thing is locked up and we don't get a chance to recover.

But isn't that possible already without fences? X hangs radeon, user
crashes X for unrelated reasons before radeon will notice the hang.
Then no one uses radeon any longer and the hang stays undetected.
-Daniel
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