Re: Recent kernels sound crash solution found?

[Samium Gromoff]

"  Alan Cox wrote:"
> 
> >          * 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) {
> 
> It terminates when dmap->bufsise hits  page size
> >                 start_addr = (char *) __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC|GFP_DMA, sz);
> >                 if (start_addr == NULL)
> >                         dmap->buffsize /= 2;
> 
> I see no bug
> 
     Ahh.. yes. Sorry for this one. Comment was so obvious.

regards, Sam