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Linux Finally Introducing A Standardized Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs


The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is set to finally introduce a standardized way of informing user-space of GPUs becoming hung or otherwise unresponsive

The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is set to finally introduce a standardized way of informing user-space of GPUs becoming hung or otherwise unresponsive. Besides alerting user-space of the problem itself, via udev rules or other custom recovery scripts, steps could be taken when informed of the hung/unresponsive GPU. Today's drm-misc-next pull also adds atomic helpers for async pageflips on arbitrary planes.

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