[alsa-devel] BUG: soft lockup when recording audio on MX28EVK with ASoC sgtl5000

[Fabio Estevam]

Hector,

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Hector,
>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Hector Palacios
> <hector.palacios at digi.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just tried recording audio on Freescale's MX28EVK that uses ASoC sgtl5000
>> (kernel v3.8) with:
>>
>>         arecord -M -f cd sound.wav --duration 10
>>
>> and got a scheduler message:
>>
>> [  789.041847] [sched_delayed] sched: RT throttling activated
>
> I have just tested arecord on 3.8,4 and I haven't seen the 'soft lockup' bug.
>
> However, I see that mxs saif gets busy after the record and any
> attempt to do an 'aplay' after the first arecord fails.
>
> With the attached patch applied I am able to do arecord/aplay sequence
> several times.
>
> I don't have a cable handy here to actually test if the sound is
> recorded properly or not.
>
> Could you please test it against 3.8.4?

I managed to test arecord and it works with the following as follows:

1. Run alsamixer and select LINE_IN in the Capture element

2. Record with the following command line:

arecord -D hw:0,1 -d 10 -f S16_LE -r 44100 -c  test.wav

3. Then listen test.wav on your PC or in your board itself.

The sequence above works fine.

Anyway, I will submit the patch I sent earlier as it prevents the
system to get unresponsive.

Regards,

Fabio Estevam