[PATCH xserver] modesetting: Remove ms_crtc_msc_to_kernel_msc().

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Fri May 4 12:41:38 UTC 2018


Hi Mario,

On 4 May 2018 at 13:14, Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner.de at gmail.com> wrote:
> Indeed, i found a Mesa bug yesterday which can cause Mesa's
> PresentPixmap request to spuriously feed garbage targetMSC's
> into the driver under some conditions. However, while other
> video drivers seem to cope relatively well with that, modesetting
> ddx causes KDE-5's plasmashell to lock up badly quite frequently,
> and my suspicion is that the code removed in this commit is one
> major source of the extra fragility.

Thanks a lot for tracking this down! Adding Eero to Cc, who I think
stumbled on this very problem.

Cheers,
Daniel


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