Nouveau - Sep 2011 - [Bug 41114] New: nouveau module crashes on boot

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41114

           Summary: nouveau module crashes on boot
           Product: xorg
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Driver/nouveau
        AssignedTo: nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: tjaalton at ubuntu.com
         QAContact: xorg-team at lists.x.org


Created an attachment (id=51516)
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dmesg log

Upon loading the kernel module it crashes. An extract from the dmesg:

[   39.247309] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 0 at offset
0x759C
[   39.358806] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 51
[   39.425347] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0x7568: i2c bus not found
[   39.498115] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 51
[   39.564653] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0x757A: i2c bus not found
[   39.637531] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 1 at offset
0x7BF8
[   39.733665] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 51
[   39.800206] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0x8CE4: Failed parsing init table
opcode: INIT_I2C_LONG_IF -19
[   39.911419] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 2 at offset
0x8E58
[   40.002897] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 3 at offset
0x8E5C
[   40.094423] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 4 at offset
0x8F56
[   40.185903] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table at offset
0x8FBB
[   40.295285] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0x74F7: Condition still not met
after 20ms, skipping following opcodes
[   40.414831] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: unknown i2c port 51
[   40.481375] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
0000000000000010

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Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at ubuntu.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at ubuntu.com> 2011-09-22
05:34:52 PDT ---
Created an attachment (id=51517)
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vbios

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--- Comment #2 from Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at ubuntu.com> 2011-09-22
05:36:37 PDT ---
The NVidia binary driver works seemingly fine, if it matters.

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--- Comment #3 from Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> 2011-09-22
10:54:39 PDT ---
Hi Timo

Can you try the latest kernel [1] or at least this patch (drm/nouveau: fix oops
if i2c bus not found in nouveau_i2c_identify()) [2]

It should resolve the "NULL pointer dereference"

Cheers
Emil

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/
[2]
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=4213df3fa3af818b4ec0397428b007a9d033084c

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--- Comment #4 from Ben Skeggs <skeggsb at gmail.com> 2011-09-22 14:57:48
PDT ---
How did you acquire the VBIOS image?  If you didn't already do it this way,
can
you mount debugfs with nouveau loaded (i guess you may need the patch already
mentioned), and copy the VBIOS image from /<debugfs/dri/0/vbios.rom for me
please?

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--- Comment #5 from Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at ubuntu.com> 2011-09-23
02:40:01 PDT ---
It wasn't acquired by me, but I heard that the 'dd' method mentioned
on the
wiki was used. I'll ask to test a new kernel with the fix and get a new
dump.

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--- Comment #6 from Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at ubuntu.com> 2011-09-27
15:09:36 PDT ---
Created an attachment (id=51692)
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another vbios dump

Ok this should be a better (?) dump of the vbios.. The output is "garbled
beyond recognition" with the oops fixed.

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--- Comment #8 from xavier.bru at bull.net 2011-11-09 00:39:59 UTC ---
We have same crash when loading the nouveau driver on a platform that owns an
NviDia GPU (NVc0 generation card (0x0c8880a1). See previous attached traces.
I applied the proposed [2] patch. It solves the crash, but we then the nouveau
driver logs continuously errors:
[drm] nouveau 0000:83:00.0: unknown i2c port 48

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--- Comment #7 from xavier.bru at bull.net 2011-11-09 00:34:36 PST ---
Created attachment 53317
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nouveau crash

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--- Comment #9 from xavier.bru at bull.net 2011-11-09 06:27:14 PST ---

It seems that adding the nouveau.modeset=0 boot kernel parameter the driver
loads without problem (but no traces are seen in dmesg).

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Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at ubuntu.com> changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at ubuntu.com> 2011-11-09
06:31:33 PST ---
xavier: nomodeset disables nouveau completely.

Ben: Is the vbios I posted helpful?

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--- Comment #11 from xavier.bru at bull.net 2011-11-09 09:22:21 PST ---
Hi Timo

Thanks for your answer. I worried with this option because when running lsmod
command the "nouveau" driver is present, but I could not see traces in
dmesg....
As a work-around, we also tried unsuccessfully to blacklist the driver
(rdblacklist=nouveau kernel boot parameter). 
Using the nouveau.disable=1 kernel boot parameter prevents the driver to be
loaded, but its a side effect (error on no "disable" option in the
driver).
Is there a clean way to blacklist it ? 

Thanks again.

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--- Comment #12 from Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> 2012-05-23
15:34:19 PDT ---
*** Bug 44652 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #13 from Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> 2012-05-23
15:34:31 PDT ---
*** Bug 43029 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #14 from Robert Riches <rm.riches at jacob21819.net>
2012-05-28 19:52:23 PDT ---
With an ENGTX560 DC/2DI/1GD5 card, an experiment with Mageia 2 LiveCD with a
desktop 3.3.6 kernel was successful, which may mean the solution is in the
kernel at least by that version.  Otherwise, there are some attachments in
#43029 that might help, including dmesg output from Knoppix 6.7.1 with the
above-named card.

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--- Comment #15 from Robert Riches <rm.riches at jacob21819.net> ---
Unfortunately, installed Mageia 2 doesn't work properly with Nouveau and the
ENGTX560 DC/2DI/1GD5 card.  According to observation and dmesg timestamps, the
kernel appears to go out to lunch for about four minutes.  Later, when
attempting startx, keyboard input becomes extremely unresponsive, and video
output is blacked out.  This is with kernel 3.3.8-desktop-2.mga2.  The same
installation and kernel work well with an ENGT430 card.  What information
(dmesg, Xorg log) would be useful?

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--- Comment #16 from Robert Riches <rm.riches at jacob21819.net> ---
With multiple duplicate reports and apparently multiple reporters, shouldn't
this have a status of 'confirmed' rather than 'new'?

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Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> changed:

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            Summary|nouveau module crashes on   |[NVCx] nouveau module
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--- Comment #17 from Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> ---
Does this still happen with more recent kernels?

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--- Comment #18 from Robert Riches <rm.riches at jacob21819.net> ---
I won't be able to test a newer kernel for the symptoms I observed, because
I
don't have a system available to install a release with a newer kernel. 
However, please don't take that as reason to disqualify this report. 
I'm a
minor late arrival at this party.  It's not clear whether the issue I
mentioned
with kernel 3.3.8-desktop-2.mga2 on Mageia 2 is consistent with the original
symptoms reported here.  My symptoms should probably be reported separately, if
I could afford the time to do that.  Hopefully, the earlier reporters can test
with a newer kernel.

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Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> changed:

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--- Comment #19 from Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> ---
No (positive) response to re-test request after a month. Closing as invalid.
The driver has been rewritten enough since the original report that it's
very
unlikely that the same crash still exists.

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--- Comment #20 from Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at ubuntu.com> ---
yeah, sorry for the delay.

My old T420s works pretty good these days, running on ubuntu 13.10 now with
3.11 kernel and tested booting the discrete gpu with it, all fine (NVD9 here
though). Acceleration seems to be enabled as well :)

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--- Comment #21 from Robert Riches <rm.riches at jacob21819.net> ---
Ilia, would you please point me toward where I can find out what kernel version
contains the rewrite(s) of this module that may solve the problem with the 
ENGTX560 DC/2DI/1GD5 card?  I Googled for changelog and release notes for
Nouveau, but I came up empty.  Thanks.

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--- Comment #22 from Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> ---
A lot of parts of nouveau are rewritten in various kernel versions. A bunch of
stuff happened in 3.5, more in 3.7, more in 3.8. Probably a bunch of stuff
before then too.

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--- Comment #23 from Robert Riches <rm.riches at jacob21819.net> ---
Thank you for the info.

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