On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 15:20 +0000, Adam Sampson wrote: > [l-a-u CCed because we've been talking about this problem there > recently, and that's what prodded me to do the bisection to track it > down... fortunately the -rt8 to -rt9 interdiff was pretty small!] > > Subject: [PATCH] [RT] tasklets: fix typo in tasklet_hi_action > > Fix a typo in tasklet_hi_action -- using the wrong tasklet list when removing > actions. Thank you thank you thank you! I posted to lkml about this a while back but no real solution was forthcoming. This is such a piece of good news! -- Fernando > This appears to be what was causing the ALSA sequencer device not to work in > 2.6.26 with the RT patch: the sequencer was flaky in -rt1 to -rt8, and just > hung in -rt9 and later, after tasklets-fix-tasklet_hi_schedule.patch which > fixed the same typo when adding to the list. I guess that's because before -rt9 > the actions were going onto the wrong list, whereas after -rt9 they were being > lost entirely once the first one had been performed. It seems happy now, > anyway. > > Signed-off-by: Adam Sampson <ats@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- linux-2.6.26/kernel/softirq.c_orig 2009-01-04 14:41:06.000000000 +0000 > +++ linux-2.6.26/kernel/softirq.c 2009-01-04 14:41:49.000000000 +0000 > @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ > local_irq_disable(); > list = __get_cpu_var(tasklet_hi_vec).head; > __get_cpu_var(tasklet_hi_vec).head = NULL; > - __get_cpu_var(tasklet_hi_vec).tail = &__get_cpu_var(tasklet_vec).head; > + __get_cpu_var(tasklet_hi_vec).tail = &__get_cpu_var(tasklet_hi_vec).head; > local_irq_enable(); > > __tasklet_action(a, list); > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
