[alsa-devel] Player Thread is not woken after period elapsed

[Yong Zhang]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 06:12:03PM +0530, Nallasellan, Singaravelan wrote:
> > > > > > Further investigation of this issue shows that the thread is in
> > > > > > running state
> > 
> > Hmm, how do you detect it?
> > 
> > > > and it is not scheduled. I am not sure how I will go about debugging this
> > issue.
> > > > Any pointer would help.
> > 
> > Could 'cat /proc/sched_debug' give some useful info?
> Tried. It did not help.
> > 
> > And BTW, have you tried CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP = y?
> > 
> It is already set. 

That sound at least kwatchdogd could be scheduled suscessfully.

And if CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK could not bite your "Player Thread",
I have no idea what's going on.

Maybe you could try the latest kernel?

Thanks,
Yong