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SubjectRe: Debugging uninterruptible sleep causing drivers
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:39:03 +0530
Ram <vshrirama@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Would like some advices on how to debug a driver which causes a
> processes to go into
> uninterruptible sleep.
>
> Am trying to debug a bug which makes my video driver to go into
> an sleep/busywaiting. (when i do 'ps -l' find a 'D' in the stat
> field).
>
> 99% of the time the driver works,
>
> However when i try to run both the video and the audio
> driver.(streaming audio and video)
> The video driver sometimes goes into busywaiting/sleep.
>
> My driver contains lots of spinlocks and semaphores. I have no clue
> on how to solve this issues.
>

it starts by posting a URL to the (full) source code... without that..
how are people supposed to help you?


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