linux-kernel - Re: BUG POWERPC: snd-powermac hangs since 'Merge 32 and 64 bits asm-powerpc/io.h'

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Date:	Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:40:14 +0200
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Dave Vasilevsky <djvasi@...il.com>
Cc:	tiwai@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG POWERPC: snd-powermac hangs since 'Merge 32 and 64 bits
	asm-powerpc/io.h'

On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 00:53 -0400, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
> When playing audio with the snd-powermac driver on a PowerMac G4
> Quicksilver (Tumbler audio) the sound hangs after a few seconds.
> 
> - The time before a hang varies from one second to one minute.
> - Killing the process playing sound and starting again will allow
> sound to continue (for a few more seconds). 
> - Many different userspace audio systems and different audio sources
> all encounter this bug--definitely a kernel issue.
> - Vanilla kernels from 2.6.20 up to git HEAD show this behavior.
> Others have reported this bug on distro kernels.[1][2] 
> 
> I used git-bisect to find that the regression first occured after git
> commit 68a64357d15ae4f596e92715719071952006e83c
> "powerpc: Merge 32 and 64 bits asm-powerpc/io.h" by benh.[3]
> 
> My kernel debugging skills are admittedly limited, but I scattered
> printks through some relevant files and found that audio stops just as
> snd_pmac_pcm_update in sound/ppc/pmac.c encounters a struct dbdma_cmd
> with xfer_status == 0x8088. Normally it should be 0x84 (ie: ACTIVE |
> RUN) or 0x0. Hopefully this means something to somebody. I'm willing
> to do more debugging if more information is necessary, kindly CC me on
> replies to this message. 

.../... strange. I'm travelling at the moment. I'll try to have a look,
but don't hesistate to "ping" me if you don't hear from me in the
upcoming couple of weeks.

Cheers,
Ben.


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