Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030347AbWBNSeh (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:34:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030374AbWBNSeh (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:34:37 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:29916 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030347AbWBNSeg (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:34:36 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc: CIFS reproducibly freezes the computer From: Lee Revell To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Adrian Bunk , sfrench@samba.org, linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20060214135016.GC10701@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:33:21 -0500 Message-Id: <1139942002.11659.133.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.90 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 756 Lines: 21 On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 19:12 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >"Complete freeze" is: > >[..] > > is played in an endless loop by the sound chip > > Sounds like a portion of code disabled interrupts? Anything that locks the machine while sound is playing will cause the last period of audio to repeat in an endless loop, because the DMA engine keeps running but the soundcard isn't getting new data. It's not specific to interrupt disabling. Isn't it fortunate that network cards don't work this way? ;-) Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/