Re: Broken X (DRM errors)

[Julio Merino <jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 11:44:58AM +0100, Julio Merino wrote:
>> Also, if this is a problem in ld.elf_so... how come it is affecting
>> the whole system so badly?  It appears it's an userland issue, isn't
>> it?
>
> If this is a bad interaction with the DRM kernel part, it is quite
> possible that both are spinning around waiting for the other side...
> The last change just added signal blocking around the inner parts of
> rtld operation. It shouldn't trigger anything that wasn't de facto
> broken before, like using rtld functions from a signal handler (except
> lazy binding).

For some reason -- maybe the phase of the moon changed -- I can't
reproduce this any more.

-- 
Julio Merino / @jmmv