On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In the mail thread at http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-April/331164.html, > a kernel crash is triggered when trying to run mythtv with a HVR950Q tuner. > The crash condition is due to res_free() being called to free something that > has is not reserved. The actual reason for this mismatch of reserve/free is > not known; however, using a BUG_ON rather than a WARN_ON seems unfortunate. This patch should be nack'd. The real reason should be identified, and a patch should be submitted for that (and from what I gather, it seems like it is easily reproduced by the submitter). Just add a few "dump_stack()" calls in the res_get() and res_free() calls to identify the failing call path. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
