Debugging GPU VM Faults In The Open-Source Graphics Drivers

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Phoronix: Debugging GPU VM Faults In The Open-Source Graphics Drivers

Long-time open-source graphics driver contributor and one of the newer members of AMD's open-source driver team, Nicolai Hähnle, has written an insightful article about debugging GPU VM faults...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debugging-GPU-VM-Faults

[Michael_S]

Cool. I have an incredibly weak grasp of driver-level and kernel code, so I couldn't only follow parts of the post. But it was nice to understand the problem at least a little.

[SystemCrasher]

Whoa, that was whole adventure, and reading it has been very interesting! And I finally got at least some idea how to deal with these pesky "GPU VM faults" properly. Though I have to admit it sounds rather complicated, but trying-and-failng without such a good guide going to be much harder, so we have to thank Nicolai Hähnle for sure.