Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On 4 February 2002 22:17, Kilobug wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>> I've a 2.4.18-pre3-mjc3 kernel, with preempt enabled. I was testing
>>relative performance of DMA and non-DMA IDE hard disk access,
>>and I did the following as root:
>>
>>~ # hdparm -X67 -d1 /dev/hdb
>>~ # time /bin/sh -c "cp foo bar; sync"
>>~ # time /bin/sh -c "cp foo bar; sync"
>>~ # time /bin/sh -c "cp foo bar; sync"
>>~ # hdparm -X12 -d0 /dev/hdb
>>~ # time /bin/sh -c "cp foo bar; sync"
>>~ # time /bin/sh -c "cp foo bar; sync"
>>~ # time /bin/sh -c "cp foo bar; sync"
>>(foo is a 64Mb large regular file)
>>
>>I had xmms running, and during the first two tests of the non-DMA
>>version, the sound stops and then restarts, but it didn't restart after
>>the last cp.
>>
>>What is strange (and may be a kernel bug IMHO) is that the xmms process
>>stays running and non-killable:
>>
>
> SysRq-T, isolate xmms part, ksymoops it, send result here and CC maintainers
> (or who you think might be interested (Andrea/Alan/...))
SysRq-T and ksymoops:
Call Trace: [<c010ac83>] [<c0114e59>] [<c01164d4>] [<c011dc05>]
[<e486f91f>] [<c013d69d>] [<c0121d99>] [<c013c1e9>] [<c013c297>]
[<c010702b>]
Warning (Oops_read): Code line not seen, dumping what data is available
Trace; c010ac82 <call_do_IRQ+4/a>
Trace; c0114e58 <do_schedule+58/3e0>
Trace; c01164d4 <sys_sched_yield+a4/e0>
Trace; c011dc04 <tasklet_kill+54/80>
Trace; e486f91e <[emu10k1]emu10k1_audio_release+be/230>
Trace; c013d69c <fput+4c/100>
Trace; c0121d98 <schedule_timeout+58/a0>
Trace; c013c1e8 <filp_close+68/c0>
Trace; c013c296 <sys_close+56/b0>
Trace; c010702a <system_call+32/38>
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