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Message-ID: <s5h645cia6q.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:46:05 +0200
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc: perex@...e.cz, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: use __devexit_p
At Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:50:57 -0400,
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> This reminds me...
>
> Someone needs to go through ALSA and audit all delays executed via
> $FOO_interruptible().
>
> Several delays within ALSA wait for hardware conditions, and do not
> check for signals pending, which means that the wait-for-condition loop
> becomes a busy loop:
>
> while (1) {
> foo = read_hardware()
> if (foo & interesting_bits)
> break;
> schedule_timeout_interruptible(1);
> }
>
> The proper fix is (a) remove "_interruptible" [recommended] or (b) check
> for signals.
>
> grep'ing for "_interruptible" quickly finds several such ALSA bugs.
Yep... I fixed now on ALSA tree. Thanks for hints!
Takashi
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