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Message-ID: <s5haawbo3f7.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:09:32 +0100
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: WARNING: at sound/core/sound_oss.c:96 snd_oss_kernel_minor+0xdf/0x120 	[snd]()

At Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:48:29 +0100 (CET),
John Kacur wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > At Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:36:38 +0100,
> > John Kacur wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> wrote:
> > > > At Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:15:23 +0100,
> > > > John Kacur wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> wrote:
> > > >> > At Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:53:24 +0100,
> > > >> > John Kacur wrote:
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> The following was in my 2.6.33-rc3 dmesg (of course that doesn't mean
> > > >> >> that the problem didn't exist earlier too)
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> WARNING: at /home/jkacur/rt.linux.git/sound/core/sound_oss.c:96
> > > >> >> snd_oss_kernel_minor+0xdf/0x120 [snd]()
> > > >> >> Hardware name: 2241B48
> > > >> >> BUG? (minor < 0 || minor >= 128)
> > > >> >> Modules linked in: snd_mixer_oss thinkpad_acpi(+) sdhci hwmon i2c_i801
> > > >> >> firewire_ohci snd_pcm mmc_core snd_timer cfg80211 firewire_core btusb
> > > >> >> joydev iTCO_wdt bluetooth ata_generic e1000e i2c_core ppdev snd
> > > >> >> battery ac iTCO_vendor_support parport_pc ricoh_mmc intel_agp
> > > >> >> pata_acpi pcspkr parport tpm_tis video wmi output soundcore button tpm
> > > >> >> rfkill sr_mod tpm_bios snd_page_alloc crc_itu_t cdrom sg ahci libata
> > > >> >> sd_mod scsi_mod crc_t10dif xfs exportfs uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd
> > > >> >> [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
> > > >> >> Pid: 1317, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.33-rc3 #1
> > > >> >> Call Trace:
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffffa027bb25>] ? snd_oss_kernel_minor+0xdf/0x120 [snd]
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffff8104338c>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0xa9
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffff81043410>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x43
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffffa027bb25>] snd_oss_kernel_minor+0xdf/0x120 [snd]
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffffa027bc7e>] snd_register_oss_device+0x2c/0x21a [snd]
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffffa0271e1e>] snd_mixer_oss_notify_handler+0xa5/0x2e5 [snd_mixer_oss]
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffff81375e00>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x5c/0x141
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffff810710d5>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x11f/0x14a
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffff8107110d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
> > > >> >> sdhci-pci 0000:15:00.2: SDHCI controller found [1180:0822] (rev 21)
> > > >> >> sdhci-pci 0000:15:00.2: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffff81375ed3>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x12f/0x141
> > > >> >> sdhci-pci 0000:15:00.2: Will use DMA mode even though HW doesn't fully
> > > >> >> claim to support it.
> > > >> >> Registered led device: mmc0::
> > > >> >> mmc0: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:15:00.2] using DMA
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffffa027628a>] snd_card_register+0x135/0x14b [snd]
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffffa0370c88>] volume_init+0x335/0x3d2 [thinkpad_acpi]
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffffa037289b>] thinkpad_acpi_module_init+0x61f/0xa4f [thinkpad_acpi]
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffffa037227c>] ? thinkpad_acpi_module_init+0x0/0xa4f [thinkpad_acpi]
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffff810001fa>] do_one_initcall+0x5f/0x154
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffff8107ff34>] sys_init_module+0xd7/0x234
> > > >> >>  [<ffffffff81002d5b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> > > >> >> ---[ end trace a6d53dc318f09cb5 ]---
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Looks like the code path from thinkpad-acpi...
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Could you add some printk's in sound/core/sound_oss.c:snd_oss_kernel_minor()
> > > >> > to inspect which values are taken and calculated?
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > > >> I'm getting a card->number equal to 29, and a dev equal to 0.
> > > >
> > > > The card number 29 is very strange.  Is it the correct number?
> > > > You can see the sound instances in /proc/asound/cards.
> > > >
> > > >> The case is SNDRV_OSS_DEVICE_TYPE_MIXER:
> > > >> So that does  minor = SNDRV_MINOR_OSS(card->number, (dev ?
> > > >> SNDRV_MINOR_OSS_MIXER1 : SNDRV_MINOR_OSS_MIXER));
> > > >> and according to the formula #define SNDRV_MINOR_OSS(card,
> > > >> dev)  (((card) << 4) | (dev))
> > > >> That works out to 464 which of course is not in the acceptable range
> > > >> between 0 and 128.
> > > >
> > > > Do you build thinkpad-acpi as a module or built-in?  How about the
> > > > sound stuff?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Takashi
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> > > 
> > >  cat /proc/asound/card
> > > card0/  card29/ cards
> > > [jkacur@...ho rt.linux.git]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
> > >  0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
> > >                       HDA Intel at 0xfc020000 irq 31
> > > 29 [ThinkPadEC     ]: ThinkPad EC - ThinkPad Console Audio Control
> > >                       ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30,
> > > fw 7VHT12WW-1.01
> > 
> > OK, then the ALSA core driver behavior is correct.  But, another
> > question is why such a strange number is passed.  Let me see the
> > code...
> > 
> >  static int alsa_index = ~((1 << (SNDRV_CARDS - 3)) - 1); /* last three slots */
> > 
> > So, this behavior is intentional, too.
> 
> Okay, it took me a little bit to work it out that with SNDRV_CARDS = 32
> the above is - the 29th bit. Kinda cryptic no?

Heh, we live in zero-based world :)
thinkpad-acpi tries to start from the last three slots, i.e. from 29
to 31.

> Also, it does seem like the code intentionally makes use of that, at first
> I was concerned you would be turning of a debug message for one use case,
> but it seems consistent.

I guess it's for avoiding conflicts with other possible sound
devices.  Using the OSS device wasn't even considered, supposedly.

> Even though the code looks obviously okay, I applied your patch, 
> recompiled and booted, and the false message is gone.
> 
> Acked-by: John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
> 
> Are you going to push that to Linus for 2.6.33?

Yep, it's in the queue to be sent in this evening.


thanks,

Takashi
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