Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jiri Slaby" <> | Date | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:46:58 +0100 | Subject | Re: system keeps freezing once every 24 hours / random apps crashing |
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Jiri Slaby wrote: >Mark v Wolher wrote: >>> Still no crashes or irregular things happened ! Will let it go for a few >>> more hours. This test is being done with the binary nvidia module loaded >>> and bttv disabled. The next test will be nv for X instead of the binary >>> module with bttv enabled, if crashes and such start to occur then it's >>> very likely that the problem sits in the bttv code. >> >> >>Okay, here are the test results: >> >> >>- heavy load + nvidia (binary module) + bttv with grabdisplay = crash >>- heavy load + nv (not tainted kernel) + bttv with grabdisplay = crash >> >>- heavy load + nvidia (binary module) + bttv with overlay = OK >>- heavy load + nv (not tainted kernel) + bttv with overlay = OK >> >>Adding vmware on top of it will cause the system sooner to freeze/crash >>(using grabdisplay) >> >>So what you think guys ? >Hi, >we still think that there is a problem in bttv_risc_packed in computing >estimated size. My patch was bad, I see it now, but still don't understand, how >it is computed and how it should be: > instructions = (bpl * lines) / PAGE_SIZE + lines; > instructions += 2; >and here it crashes (the first line, the (*rp)) -- actually after while loop. > *(rp++)=cpu_to_le32(BT848_RISC_WRITE|BT848_RISC_EOL|todo); > *(rp++)=cpu_to_le32(sg_dma_address(sg)); >So, Mauro (or somebody from list), have you any idea, what could be wrong? Mark, could you try the Duncan's patch, it seems, that's it: http://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2006/1/25/59/1
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