On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Thomas Charbonnel wrote:
Hi,
I noticed this problem today using midi on my setup (alsa 1.0.1, kernel 2.6.1 with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP) :
Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/asm/uaccess.h:473
in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():1
Call Trace:
[<c012139c>] __might_sleep+0xac/0xe0
[<c010b170>] handle_signal+0xd0/0x140
[<c03955ef>] snd_rawmidi_kernel_read1+0x10f/0x170
[<c03957e7>] snd_rawmidi_read+0x147/0x1b0
[<c01131cf>] restore_i387_fxsave+0x8f/0xa0
[<c015b2f3>] vfs_read+0xd3/0x140
[<c015b59f>] sys_read+0x3f/0x60
[<c010b4bb>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
I'm sorry I didn't check if this was fixed in 1.0.2, but though it was worth mentioning. This caused regular (~ 1/second) dropouts in pd while using midi.
I'm not sure, but it looks like kernel problem. We don't call handle_signal() function from snd_rawmidi_kernel_read1() - you may check this function - scheduling is not involved. I wonder why this function is called from in the spinlock context.
Please, report this problem to LKML or try the latest 2.6 kernel.
Jaroslav
Hi Jaroslav,
Doing some more tests I got also this message :
Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/asm/uaccess.h:498 in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():1 Call Trace: [<c012139c>] __might_sleep+0xac/0xe0 [<c0395c2d>] snd_rawmidi_kernel_write1+0x16d/0x200 [<c0395ea4>] snd_rawmidi_write+0x1b4/0x300 [<c010b2c1>] do_signal+0xe1/0xf0 [<c01131cf>] restore_i387_fxsave+0x8f/0xa0 [<c015b4f3>] vfs_write+0xd3/0x140 [<c015b5ff>] sys_write+0x3f/0x60 [<c010b4bb>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
The kernel functions pointed to in include/asm/usaccess.h are copy_to_user and copy_from_user. They are indeed called from a spinlock context from both snd_rawmidi_kernel_write1 and snd_rawmidi_kernel_read1, and are flagged might_sleep. The strange thing is that they were already flagged might_sleep in 2.6.0, which I believe I compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP also, and I can't remember having the problem. On the other hand I only checked dmesg here because I could hear audio dropouts. Maybe the might_sleep detection code has been changed and is responsible for the dropouts ?
Thomas
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