[alsa-devel] snd-ctxfi oops

[Ted T. Logan]

I upgraded to this new snapshot and have the same click every 1.5
seconds on every single application with my x-fi.

I'm just confused as to why this didn't occur at all with the old
driver, as in, was something strange introduced?

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 17:09 +0400, The Source wrote:

> On 15.06.2009 17:01, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:00:03 +0200,
> > I wrote:
> >    
> >> At Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:59:53 +0400,
> >> The Source wrote:
> >>      
> >>> On 15.06.2009 16:56, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>>        
> >>>> At Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:07:49 +0200,
> >>>> I wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>>            
> >>>>>> Tested the patch more. Really no oopses. Instead of them I get rare
> >>>>>> system lockups.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>              
> >>>>> In which situation, exactly?
> >>>>> Could you check whether it happens with use_system_timer=1 module
> >>>>> option, too?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>            
> >>>> Or try the very latest alsa-driver-snapshot (not daily tarball).
> >>>> I fixed a deadlock issue in cttimer.c now.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> Takashi
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>          
> >>> Should I apply that patch to this snapshot?
> >>>        
> >> Which patch do you mean?
> >> Just grab the latest alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz from
> >>      ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/
> >>      
> > Also, check alsa-driver/alsa-kernel/HEAD whether the commit
> >     8dca419721d188bfee5f19fad45275856c619a5c
> >       ALSA: ctxfi - Fix deadlock with xfi-timer
> > is included.
> >
> >
> > Takashi
> >
> >    
> Tested the driver and it's fine so far. No craches with any application 
> including Doom 3, which caused system lockups often with earlier 
> versions of the driver.
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