Hi,

At Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:00:17 -0800,
Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Torrey Hoffman <thoffman@arnor.net> wrote:
> >
> > I get this every time I boot 2.6.0-test10.  I think this problem has
> > been around for a while.
> > 
> > Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at
> > include/asm/semaphore.h:119
> > in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> > Call Trace:
> >  [<c01229d0>] __might_sleep+0xab/0xc9
> >  [<fcff57bd>] ap_cs8427_sendbytes+0x38/0xd2 [snd_ice1712]
> >  [<fcfa825a>] snd_i2c_sendbytes+0x22/0x26 [snd_i2c]
> >  [<fcfaf15e>] snd_cs8427_reg_read+0x2c/0x8c [snd_cs8427]
> >  [<fcfaf414>] snd_cs8427_create+0xa4/0x347 [snd_cs8427]
> >  [<c02dc4b0>] snd_device_new+0x20/0x6a
> >  [<fcff151a>] snd_ice1712_init_cs8427+0x2f/0x6f [snd_ice1712]
> >  [<fcff6153>] snd_ice1712_delta_init+0x230/0x2b9 [snd_ice1712]
> >  [<fcff5227>] snd_ice1712_probe+0x323/0x34c [snd_ice1712]
> 
> snd_cs8427_create() does:
> 
> 	snd_i2c_lock(bus);
> 	if ((err = snd_cs8427_reg_read(device, CS8427_REG_ID_AND_VER)) != CS8427_VER8427A) {
> 
> the first statement takes a spinlock.  snd_cs8427_reg_read() then calls
> ap_cs8427_sendbytes() which downs a semaphore.
> 
> 
> It might be more appropriate to use a semaphore for ice1712_t.gpio_mutex?

the attached patch fixes this, simply replacing spinlock with mutex.
it's already in ALSA 1.0.0pre release.

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Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>		ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org