Morning,
I got frequent Freeze/Crash of Xorg with drivers 310.19 with GTS 250 on 3.2.0-4-amd64 (current debian testing kernel)
It happen quickly when i use any 3D function (compositing of the gnome shell desktop, launching a game via wine), but if i let the pc running all the night after reboot, it can run all the night without crashing.
I can see in Xorg.0.conf an error and backtrace :
[ 19206.280] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000ac2c, 0x0000b2b0)
[ 19212.525] [mi] EQ overflowing. Additional events will be discarded until existing events are processed.
[ 19212.525]
[ 19212.525] Backtrace:
[ 19212.550] 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x36) [0x7f4de4d0ec66]
[ 19212.550] 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (mieqEnqueue+0x26b) [0x7f4de4ceff0b]
[ 19212.550] 2: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x7f4de4b90000+0x66892) [0x7f4de4bf6892]
[ 19212.550] 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0x7f4ddcd56000+0x55d8) [0x7f4ddcd5b5d8]
[ 19212.550] 4: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x7f4de4b90000+0x8d8d7) [0x7f4de4c1d8d7]
[ 19212.550] 5: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x7f4de4b90000+0xb1ba8) [0x7f4de4c41ba8]
[ 19212.550] 6: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f4de3eb8000+0xf030) [0x7f4de3ec7030]
[ 19212.550] 7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f4ddd619000+0x7bd0b) [0x7f4ddd694d0b]
[ 19212.550] 8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f4ddd619000+0x7d254) [0x7f4ddd696254]
[ 19212.550] 9: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f4ddd619000+0xf27eb) [0x7f4ddd70b7eb]
[ 19212.550] 10: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f4ddd619000+0xb6d82) [0x7f4ddd6cfd82]
[ 19212.550] 11: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f4ddd619000+0x4f902c) [0x7f4dddb1202c]
[ 19212.550] 12: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f4ddd619000+0x4cc54a) [0x7f4dddae554a]
[ 19212.550] 13: /usr/bin/Xorg (BlockHandler+0x4a) [0x7f4de4be6bda]
[ 19212.550] 14: /usr/bin/Xorg (WaitForSomething+0x114) [0x7f4de4d0c024]
[ 19212.550] 15: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x7f4de4b90000+0x52b81) [0x7f4de4be2b81]
[ 19212.550] 16: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x7f4de4b90000+0x41ec5) [0x7f4de4bd1ec5]
[ 19212.550] 17: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f4de2be2ead]
[ 19212.551] 18: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x7f4de4b90000+0x4219d) [0x7f4de4bd219d]
[ 19212.551]
[ 19212.551] [mi] These backtraces from mieqEnqueue may point to a culprit higher up the stack.
[ 19212.551] [mi] mieq is NOT the cause. It is a victim.
[ 19213.061] [mi] EQ overflow continuing. 100 events have been dropped.
[ 19213.061]
[ 19213.061] Backtrace:
[ 19213.061] 0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x36) [0x7f4de4d0ec66]
[ 19213.061] 1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x7f4de4b90000+0x66892) [0x7f4de4bf6892]
[ 19213.061] 2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0x7f4ddcd56000+0x55d8) [0x7f4ddcd5b5d8]
[ 19213.062] 3: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x7f4de4b90000+0x8d8d7) [0x7f4de4c1d8d7]
[ 19213.062] 4: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x7f4de4b90000+0xb1ba8) [0x7f4de4c41ba8]
[ 19213.062] 5: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f4de3eb8000+0xf030) [0x7f4de3ec7030]
[ 19213.062] 6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f4ddd619000+0x7bd0b) [0x7f4ddd694d0b]
[ 19213.062] 7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f4ddd619000+0x7d254) [0x7f4ddd696254]
[ 19213.062] 8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f4ddd619000+0xf27eb) [0x7f4ddd70b7eb]
[ 19213.062] 9: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f4ddd619000+0xb6d82) [0x7f4ddd6cfd82]
[ 19213.062] 10: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f4ddd619000+0x4f902c) [0x7f4dddb1202c]
[ 19213.062] 11: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7f4ddd619000+0x4cc54a) [0x7f4dddae554a]
[ 19213.062] 12: /usr/bin/Xorg (BlockHandler+0x4a) [0x7f4de4be6bda]
[ 19213.062] 13: /usr/bin/Xorg (WaitForSomething+0x114) [0x7f4de4d0c024]
[ 19213.062] 14: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x7f4de4b90000+0x52b81) [0x7f4de4be2b81]
[ 19213.062] 15: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x7f4de4b90000+0x41ec5) [0x7f4de4bd1ec5]
[ 19213.062] 16: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f4de2be2ead]
[ 19213.062] 17: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x7f4de4b90000+0x4219d) [0x7f4de4bd219d]
[ 19213.062]
[ 19213.280] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000ac2c, 0x0000b2b0)
[ 19213.280] [mi] Increasing EQ size to 512 to prevent dropped events.
[ 19213.280] [mi] EQ processing has resumed after 151 dropped events.
[ 19213.280] [mi] This may be caused my a misbehaving driver monopolizing the server’s resources.
[ 19220.283] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000ac2c, 0x0000fd1c)
[ 19227.283] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000ac2c, 0x0000fd1c)
[ 19237.284] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): WAIT: (E, 0, 0x827d)
In dmesg i have the following message too :
[19193.871515] NVRM: Xid (0000:01:00): 8, Channel 00000003
[19195.869021] NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context
Bug report archive is available here : [url]http://khertan.net/datas/downloads/Others/nvidia-bug-report.log.gz[/url].
I ll go back to 295.x.x driver for the moment which didn’t generate such problem.
(it could be also a config error, in this case thanks for any advice)