intel drm driver issue and disk slowness fix in ubuntu / xbuntu 16

If you are running xubuntu of ubuntu and have a intel graphics card then the drivers are a bit broken.. This causes general slowness and the apperance of constant disk accesses and it seems to show most often after suspension wakeup.

You can confirm the issue by tailing dmesg:

dmesg -w

Your watching for this kind of message:

[20474.916101] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[20474.916133] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 999 at /build/linux-a2WvEb/linux-4.4.0/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c:1326 drm_wait_one_vblank+0x1b5/0x1c0 [drm]()
[20474.916135] vblank wait timed out on crtc 0
[20474.916136] Modules linked in: uas usb_storage nls_iso8859_1 mmc_block udf crc_itu_t drbg ansi_cprng ctr ccm i2400m_usb i2400m wimax intel_rapl x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp arc4 iwldvm uvcvideo kvm_intel kvm videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops mac80211 videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_core irqbypass v4l2_common videodev crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul iwlwifi aesni_intel media snd_hda_codec_hdmi aes_x86_64 snd_hda_codec_realtek lrw snd_hda_codec_generic gf128mul snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq joydev glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd input_leds serio_raw snd_seq_device toshiba_acpi snd_timer sparse_keymap cfg80211 snd soundcore toshiba_bluetooth wmi toshiba_haps mei_me mei lpc_ich shpchp mac_hid tpm_infineon ip6t_REJECT
[20474.916188]  nf_reject_ipv6 nf_log_ipv6 xt_hl ip6t_rt nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 nf_log_ipv4 nf_log_common xt_LOG xt_limit xt_tcpudp xt_addrtype nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_broadcast nf_nat_ftp nf_nat nf_conntrack_ftp nf_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables parport_pc ppdev lp parport autofs4 i915 psmouse i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper ahci syscopyarea sysfillrect libahci sysimgblt fb_sys_fops drm sdhci_pci e1000e sdhci ptp pps_core video fjes
[20474.916224] CPU: 3 PID: 999 Comm: Xorg Not tainted 4.4.0-36-generic #55-Ubuntu
[20474.916226] Hardware name: TOSHIBA dynabook R731/36EB/Portable PC, BIOS Version 3.60   01/24/2012
[20474.916228]  0000000000000286 00000000aa071208 ffff8800a46dbb08 ffffffff813f13b3
[20474.916231]  ffff8800a46dbb50 ffffffffc00cfb38 ffff8800a46dbb40 ffffffff810810f2
[20474.916234]  ffff88014a605000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000000e0368
[20474.916237] Call Trace:
[20474.916245]  [] dump_stack+0x63/0x90
[20474.916251]  [] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xc0
[20474.916254]  [] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5c/0x80
[20474.916259]  [] ? finish_wait+0x55/0x70
[20474.916272]  [] drm_wait_one_vblank+0x1b5/0x1c0 [drm]
[20474.916276]  [] ? wake_atomic_t_function+0x60/0x60
[20474.916311]  [] intel_atomic_commit+0x43a/0x6f0 [i915]
[20474.916329]  [] ? drm_atomic_set_crtc_for_connector+0x6f/0xe0 [drm]
[20474.916346]  [] drm_atomic_commit+0x37/0x60 [drm]
[20474.916359]  [] drm_atomic_helper_set_config+0x76/0xb0 [drm_kms_helper]
[20474.916374]  [] drm_mode_set_config_internal+0x62/0x100 [drm]
[20474.916389]  [] drm_mode_setcrtc+0x3cc/0x4f0 [drm]
[20474.916402]  [] drm_ioctl+0x152/0x540 [drm]
[20474.916417]  [] ? drm_mode_setplane+0x1b0/0x1b0 [drm]
[20474.916421]  [] do_vfs_ioctl+0x29f/0x490
[20474.916424]  [] ? __sb_end_write+0x21/0x30
[20474.916428]  [] ? vfs_write+0x15d/0x1a0
[20474.916430]  [] SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90
[20474.916434]  [] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x16/0x71
[20474.916437] ---[ end trace a5e017619a02b625 ]---

If your getting hung by it and dont what to shutdown you can get your system moving again by doing this:

sudo pm-suspend 

The full solution is the removal of the offending driver:

sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-intel