Hello, Anybody have something to say about this? :) Kind regards, Benjamin On 22/05/2008, Benjamin van den Hout <bvdhout@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > So after much experimentation and thinking, I think I can come up with the > following scenario why the kernel crashes: > > When the aloop soundcard is closed by jackd, all data structures are freed. > This is OK, but the code forgets to check if any timers are still running. > Most of the time this goes well and nothing bad happens. But sometimes the > dpcm->timer.function fires after all data is cleaned up/freed. And that is > of course not very desirable. > > I've attached a patch to the alsa-driver-hg20080516 version of > drivers/aloop-kernel.c This patch does a del_timer() in three places, I > would love to hear feedback from you guys on the list if some del_timers can > be eliminated? It seems a bit paranoia but it works perfectly in my test > setup. > > So what do you guys think? I've never submitted patches before so I'm not > sure if this is the correct procedure. Please correct me if necessary... > > Kind regards, > Benjamin van den Hout > > -- Groeten, Benjamin Call me for free! http://www.pushcall.com/client/?key=benjamin _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
