From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bttv hang problem on 2.6.8
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:01:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041025160145.GA23760@xi.wantstofly.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041025151841.GA10042@bytesex>
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 05:18:41PM +0200, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > When there is a background thread doing VIDIOCSYNC in a loop, issuing
> > VIDIOCSPICT in the current thread on the same file descriptor causes
> > it to go into uninterruptable sleep and hang. This is on kernel 2.6.8
> > using the bttv driver, and appears easily reproducible.
>
> Don't do that. bttv serializes ioctls with a lock. Well, not all of
> them, but the ones which change the state of the filehandle, and both
> VIDIOCSYNC + VIDIOCSPICT fall into that group. You simply can't run
> them in parallel on the same filehandle.
OK, even though it worked fine on 2.4 I'll buy that, but it still
shouldn't result in an unkillable process, should it?
cheers,
Lennert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-25 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-25 15:03 bttv hang problem on 2.6.8 Lennert Buytenhek
2004-10-25 15:18 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-25 16:01 ` Lennert Buytenhek [this message]
2004-10-25 20:53 ` Gerd Knorr
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