Hda patch from this day

[Robert Noland]

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 05:09 +0300, Alexander Motin wrote:
> Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 14:09 -0400, Robert Noland wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:03 +0300, Alexander Motin wrote:
> >>> Robert Noland wrote:
> >>>>> with your 20080825 patch:
> >>>>> cat /dev/sndstat:
> >>>>> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386)
> >>>>> Installed devices:
> >>>>> pcm0: <HDA codec Realtek ALC260 PCM #0> at hdac0 cad 0
> >>>>> kld snd_hda [20080825_0100] [GIANT] (0p:0v/1r:1v channels default)
> >>>> Giant?  That could be the source of my boot hang.  My root filesys is
> >>>> off of usb, which is also Giant, so if your holding the lock...
> >>> Actually have no idea what does that mean yet. HDA driver itself locked
> >>> without using Giant, and I don't know where it comes from. May be from
> >>> sound subsystem, maybe from somewhere else. All I have done is created
> >>> child device pcm0 from hdac0 and it appeared in a such way. Probably I
> >>> had to dig deeper into device creation to understand this.
> >> Sigh, Ok, today my laptop is not hanging...  and mine is showing MPSAFE,
> >> so I have no idea what was going on last night.  It is docked right
> >> now... I'll un-dock it and see if that effects it, but right now it's
> >> all working good.  Sorry for the noise...
> > 
> > Ok, the dock was the key... When it is not docked, it still hangs.  I'm
> > not quite sure what output I can send you to help identify the issue,
> > but I'll give it some thought.  If you can think of anything that might
> > help, just let me know and I'll gladly send it along.
> > 
> > I did just see that you updated the patch, so I'll give that a shot and
> > see if it happens to resolve the issue.
> 
> I was able to reproduce crash on driver unload on i386 system. I have 
> found one bug leading to unexpected memory overwrite which probably 
> caused this problem.
> 
> Also I have found what that [GIANT] on PCM means. [GIANT] flag set there 
>   (it must not be in this case) caused problems with OSS and mixer 
> locking. I have fixed it also.
> 
> Updated patches uploaded.

Awesome, thanks... I've been really busy, but hopefully I can try this
out tomorrow.

robert.

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