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From: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru>
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Subject: Re: Recent kernels sound crash  solution found?
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:16:08 +0000 (UTC)
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In-Reply-To: <E15fNy1-0001uy-00@the-village.bc.nu> from "Alan Cox" at Sep 07, 2001 04:54:53 PM
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"  Alan Cox wrote:"
> 
> >          * Now loop until we get a free buffer. Try to get smaller buffer if
> >          * it fails. Don't accept smaller than 8k buffer for performance
> >          * reasons.
> >          */
> >     ===>  _here_ is a dead-loop  <===
> >         while (start_addr == NULL && dmap->buffsize > PAGE_SIZE) {
> 
> It terminates when dmap->bufsise hits  page size
> >                 start_addr = (char *) __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC|GFP_DMA, sz);
> >                 if (start_addr == NULL)
> >                         dmap->buffsize /= 2;
> 
> I see no bug
> 
     Ahh.. yes. Sorry for this one. Comment was so obvious.

regards, Sam