Re: oops with lastest CVS

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:57:35 -0400,
David Ronis wrote:
> 
> Hi Takashi,
> 
> You wrote:
> 
>  > i don't see any obvious bug there.
>  > what happens if you comment out the lines
>  > 
>  > 	if (card->files == NULL)
>  > 		wake_up(&card->shutdown_sleep);
>  > 
>  > in alsa-kernel/core/init.c:661 ?
>  > 
> 
> I did this, rebuilt/installed, and ran aplay; the system froze.  I
> rebooted and tried again.  It froze again, but this time I saw the
> kernel oops on the screen.  (seems to be a NULL pointer dereference
> problem).  There was also an additional line:
> 
> 	  <6>note:  amixer[1048] exited with preempt_count 4
> 				 ...
> 	  <6>note:  rplayd[1048] exited with preempt_count 4

hmm, there might unblanced spinlocks.


Takashi


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