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Commit ebbd857e authored by Keith Packard's avatar Keith Packard Committed by Linus Torvalds
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drm/i915: Disable semaphores by default on SNB



Semaphores still cause problems on some machines:

> From Udo Steinberg:
>
> With Linux-3.2-rc6 I'm frequently seeing GPU hangs when large amounts of
> text scroll in an xterm, such as when extracting a tar archive. Such as this
> one (note the timestamps):
>
>  I can reproduce it fairly easily with something
>  as simple as:
>
>	  while true; do dmesg; done

This patch turns them off on SNB while leaving them on for IVB.

Reported-by: default avatarUdo Steinberg <udo@hypervisor.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni@dodonov.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKeith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 7f54492f
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