Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 1998 00:20:20 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Reproducible crash under 2.1.86 [solved and fixed] |
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On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > Please Tuomo test this patch against 2.1.86 (sould work fine also against >> > 2.1.87). This patch fix fine all my locks. >> >> Well well, i applied this and the other also. Booted, tested, it seemed to >> be working fine. However, i left it running the mpg123 and ls -loop, and >> went to kitchen, when i returned it was fsck'ng :( > >if turning dma on and off crashes your box then frequency reductions will only >help not save you
The patch really works for me. I tried an userlevel program that after iopl() start in a loop that enable/disable dma but nothing happen. Maybe the lock happen because the device was again working in dma whan we run disable_dma()?
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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