Re: [PATCH] ALSA: use __devexit_p

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Mon Jun 25 2007 - 06:46:19 EST


At Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:50:57 -0400,
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> This reminds me...
>
> Someone needs to go through ALSA and audit all delays executed via
> $FOO_interruptible().
>
> Several delays within ALSA wait for hardware conditions, and do not
> check for signals pending, which means that the wait-for-condition loop
> becomes a busy loop:
>
> while (1) {
> foo = read_hardware()
> if (foo & interesting_bits)
> break;
> schedule_timeout_interruptible(1);
> }
>
> The proper fix is (a) remove "_interruptible" [recommended] or (b) check
> for signals.
>
> grep'ing for "_interruptible" quickly finds several such ALSA bugs.

Yep... I fixed now on ALSA tree. Thanks for hints!


Takashi
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