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From: John Lindgren <john.lindgren@tds.net>
To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: snd_pcm_drop causing lockup with DMix
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:37:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1267371441.14748.22.camel@satellite> (raw)

Hi,

A couple of weeks ago I reported a rather serious bug #4914 that can
cause a multi-threaded using ALSA to lock up so that it can only be
ended with SIGKILL.

I maintain the ALSA output part of Audacious, and I need to be able to
play audio in one thread of the program and then signal that thread to
stop from another.  The way to do this in ALSA, if I understand
correctly, is to interrupt the thread that is sending audio with a call
to snd_pcm_drop.  But using DMix makes the first thread hang up in a
snd_pcm_wait call with a timeout of -1.

Is anyone working on this bug?  Is there any more help I can provide?

John Lindgren

             reply	other threads:[~2010-02-28 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-28 15:37 John Lindgren [this message]
2010-02-28 16:22 ` snd_pcm_drop causing lockup with DMix Jaroslav Kysela
2010-02-28 17:15   ` John Lindgren
2010-03-01  6:53     ` Jaroslav Kysela
2010-03-01 23:52       ` John Lindgren
2010-03-02 13:25         ` Jaroslav Kysela
2010-03-03  0:24           ` John Lindgren
2010-03-03 10:01             ` Jaroslav Kysela
2010-03-03 12:28               ` John Lindgren
2010-03-03 12:59                 ` Jaroslav Kysela

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