Re: Recent kernels sound crash solution found?

[Samium Gromoff]

"  Alan Cox wrote:"
> 
> >       * comment to point 2: very rare circumcistances includes
> >    that some time should pass to fragment memory
> 
> The alloc_dmap code returns -ENOMEM when the allocation fails. That causes
> the open_dmap call to return -ENOMEM which in turn causes DMAbuf_open
> to return -ENOMEM which causes audio_openb to return -ENOMEM, which gets
> back to userspace. 
> 
> I don't see a problem.
> 
> [sound btw also supports a module option to keep the dmabuffers allocated
>  once and hang onto them]
> 
   Alan, actually i wanted to tell you about other place:
from dmabuf.c:
        /*
         * Now loop until we get a free buffer. Try to get smaller buffer if
         * it fails. Don't accept smaller than 8k buffer for performance
         * reasons.
         */
    ===>  _here_ is a dead-loop  <===
        while (start_addr == NULL && dmap->buffsize > PAGE_SIZE) {
                for (sz = 0, size = PAGE_SIZE; size < dmap->buffsize; sz++, size                dmap->buffsize = PAGE_SIZE * (1 << sz);
                start_addr = (char *) __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC|GFP_DMA, sz);
                if (start_addr == NULL)
                        dmap->buffsize /= 2;
        }

      Solutions:
        1. make it accept 0-order allocations
        2. make CONFIG_SOUND_DMAP not a config, but the only option   

cheers, Sam