On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 01:52:50PM -0800, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> Under -current, there is a weird interaction with a tiling window
> manager (dwm), firefox/thunderbird, and Xorg...

How long has this been going on and exactly how current are you?

pango-1.56.0 had a weird perhaps related issue with creating giant
windows in some environments. This should be fixed if you update to
pango-1.56.0p0.

> Whenever i open a file save window, it creates this massive window,
> has a thunderturd, kills firefox/thunderbird, and spams dmesg with:
> "drm_gem_object_init size too big 1075838976"
> 
> I know the tiling wms have long had weird issues like this with these
> gtk apps. Alas, we've reached new lows, the kernel object size check
> is triggered!
> 
> regarding drm_gem_object_init size too big, jsg says:
> 
> "That check was added in the 5.10 drm tree in 2021, for a problem
> with large allocations when running the piglit OpenGL tests
> on x250 with broadwell."
> 
> It seems like the fire/thunder should be curtailed instead of asking
> for a gigabyte GEM object...
> 

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