Hi,
This is a real oldie, but better late than never.
A while back, I discovered that this patch would help against a kernel
panic when "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec0" was executed on this machine,
which was running an fglrx driver.
I asked for a stable backport, but Takashi wanted testing to make sure
this was actually fixed by the patch [1]. And now, several months later,
I have this confirmation [2].
The test was conducted on an 3.5 Ubuntu kernel, based on the 3.5
extended stable tree, but would apply equally well to 3.4.
I'm attaching the backported patch - it applied cleanly, I've just added
an extra section with an explanation.
--
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
https://launchpad.net/~diwic
[1]
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2013-March/060132.html
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1212160/comments/4
>From 76aabf83ca9c8cff2dd9e3bb5300e3778e0baf7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:32:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: hda - Move one-time init codes from
generic_hdmi_init()
The codes to initialize work struct or create a proc interface should
be called only once and never although it's called many times through
the init callback. Move that stuff into patch_generic_hdmi() so that
it's called only once.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
(cherry picked from commit 8b8d654b55648561287bd8baca0f75f964a17038)
This is being backported to 3.4 and 3.5 due to prevention of kernel
panic. The kernel panic was observed by executing
'cat /proc/asound/card0/codec0' on a particular machine, which was
- running in battery mode
- having an external HDMI monitor connected
- running the fglrx driver.
In short, the one-time init code initializes a delayed_work struct.
Then, I believe the following happened:
1) the delayed_work was activated
2) the delayed_work struct was reinitialized by the init code
3) when the delayed_work timed out (ready to run the callback function),
the kernel panic happened because the delayed_work struct had
been corrupted in step 2.
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1212160
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c b/sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c
index 02a6e3f..ef917bf 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/patch_hdmi.c
@@ -1282,23 +1282,34 @@ static int generic_hdmi_build_controls(struct hda_codec *codec)
return 0;
}
-static int generic_hdmi_init(struct hda_codec *codec)
+static int generic_hdmi_init_per_pins(struct hda_codec *codec)
{
struct hdmi_spec *spec = codec->spec;
int pin_idx;
for (pin_idx = 0; pin_idx < spec->num_pins; pin_idx++) {
struct hdmi_spec_per_pin *per_pin = &spec->pins[pin_idx];
- hda_nid_t pin_nid = per_pin->pin_nid;
struct hdmi_eld *eld = &per_pin->sink_eld;
- hdmi_init_pin(codec, pin_nid);
- snd_hda_jack_detect_enable(codec, pin_nid, pin_nid);
-
per_pin->codec = codec;
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&per_pin->work, hdmi_repoll_eld);
snd_hda_eld_proc_new(codec, eld, pin_idx);
}
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int generic_hdmi_init(struct hda_codec *codec)
+{
+ struct hdmi_spec *spec = codec->spec;
+ int pin_idx;
+
+ for (pin_idx = 0; pin_idx < spec->num_pins; pin_idx++) {
+ struct hdmi_spec_per_pin *per_pin = &spec->pins[pin_idx];
+ hda_nid_t pin_nid = per_pin->pin_nid;
+
+ hdmi_init_pin(codec, pin_nid);
+ snd_hda_jack_detect_enable(codec, pin_nid, pin_nid);
+ }
snd_hda_jack_report_sync(codec);
return 0;
}
@@ -1343,6 +1354,7 @@ static int patch_generic_hdmi(struct hda_codec *codec)
return -EINVAL;
}
codec->patch_ops = generic_hdmi_patch_ops;
+ generic_hdmi_init_per_pins(codec);
init_channel_allocations();
--
1.7.9.5