Thomas Charbonnel wrote :
Jaroslav Kysela a écrit :

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


Hi Jaroslav,


The attached patch fixes the problem for me, but I took the obvious and easy way - I may have missed something.

Thomas
--- rawmidi.c.old       2003-10-23 16:34:52.000000000 +0200
+++ rawmidi.c   2004-02-01 15:04:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -909,10 +909,11 @@
                if (kernel) {
                        memcpy(buf + result, runtime->buffer + runtime->appl_ptr, 
count1);
                } else {
+                       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&runtime->lock, flags);
                        if (copy_to_user(buf + result, runtime->buffer + 
runtime->appl_ptr, count1)) {
-                               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&runtime->lock, flags);
                                return result > 0 ? result : -EFAULT;
                        }
+                       spin_lock_irqsave(&runtime->lock, flags);
                }
                runtime->appl_ptr += count1;
                runtime->appl_ptr %= runtime->buffer_size;
@@ -1133,10 +1134,13 @@
                if (kernel) {
                        memcpy(runtime->buffer + runtime->appl_ptr, buf, count1);
                } else {
+                       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&runtime->lock, flags);
                        if (copy_from_user(runtime->buffer + runtime->appl_ptr, buf, 
count1)) {
+                               spin_lock_irqsave(&runtime->lock, flags);
                                result = result > 0 ? result : -EFAULT;
                                goto __end;
                        }
+                       spin_lock_irqsave(&runtime->lock, flags);
                }
                runtime->appl_ptr += count1;
                runtime->appl_ptr %= runtime->buffer_size;

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