Bug#859634: nvidia-driver: 5-8 second freeze

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 08:24 -0400, Xavier Ortiz wrote:
> Package: nvidia-driver
> Version: 375.39-1
> Severity: important
> 
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> was browsing on chrome, whole system froze for a couple of seconds.
> Spotify in
> the background continued with audio.
> 
> This was the journalctl output.
> 
> Apr 05 08:20:53 DebianDesktop /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1469]: (WW)
> NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 8, 0x8000, 0x00004bfc, 0x00004c04)
> Apr 05 08:20:59 DebianDesktop kernel: NVRM: GPU at PCI:0000:01:00:
> GPU-7005a340-d9d1-0a70-4742-2697dbda6882
> Apr 05 08:20:59 DebianDesktop kernel: NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 8,
> Channel
> 00000038
> Apr 05 08:21:00 DebianDesktop /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1469]: (WW)
> NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 8, 0x8000, 0x00004bfc, 0x00004c04)
> Apr 05 08:21:02 DebianDesktop kernel: NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to
> yield the
> CPU while in atomic or interrupt context
> Apr 05 08:21:04 DebianDesktop /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[1469]: (II)
> SYN_DROPPED event from "Microsoft Microsoft® 2.4GHz Transceiver v9.0"
> - some
> input events have been lost.

Hi,

The nvidia kernel module is a binary blob, so there it is most likely
nothing we can do about it.

It was already reported upstream:

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/903841/linux/nvrm-os_schedule-
attempted-to-yield-the-cpu-while-in-atomic-or-interrupt-context-/

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/912392/-solved-xserver-freezes
-during-gaming-attempted-to-yield-the-cpu-while-in-atomic-or-interrupt-
con/

So I would recommend reporting this to the upstream developers.

Could you please post your logs on one of those threads?

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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