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  1. Bug #1492037
  2. Comment #49

Comment 49 for bug 1492037

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In , Martin-peres-n (martin-peres-n) wrote :

(In reply to Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) from comment #41)
> (In reply to Martin Peres from comment #39)
> > This patch should be a good workaround:
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ickle/mesa/commit/?h=brw-
> > batch&id=e2a696a4cd93c2dbe445243de48ed478fbdb8009
> >
> > I will test it tonight on my home machine and see if I can reproduce it. The
> > patch may make the screen flicker for a frame instead of crashing. The
> > actual problem is a race condition of DRI2 that is not trivial to fix.
>
> This patch seems to solve the brw_meta_fast_clear crashes I've had in
> Firefox and Steam since Mesa 10.6. Cheers!

Same at home. No crashes to report since I applied the patch. I will review the patch and push it upstream tomorrow.