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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Bad page state in process 'rmmod' cs4281
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:24:51 +0100
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To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Timo_T=2EHyrsyl=E4=22?= <timo.hyrsyla@cc-systems.com>
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At Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:32:02 +0200,
Timo T.Hyrsyl=E4 wrote:
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> Trying to make Alsa work on our embedded arm system with ixdp425 and CS42=
81.
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> kernel is 2.6.20.3 and the Alsas (driver+lib+utils) latest 1.0.19
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> Other than the two below errors, the system seems to work ok.
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> When removing the snd_cs4281 module, dmesg reports multiple errors about =

> bad page
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> <0>Bad page state in process 'rmmod'
> <0>page:c4007300 flags:0x00004000 mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:0
> <0>Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
> <0>Backtrace:
> <0>Bad page state in process 'rmmod'
> <0>page:c4007320 flags:0x00004000 mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:0
> <0>Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
> <0>Backtrace:
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> I've managed to track down the error upto dma_free_coherent.
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> snd_pcm_free > snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_free_for_all > =

> snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_free > snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_dma_free > =

> snd_dma_free_pages > snd_free_dev_pages > dma_free_coherent
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> =

> Another issue, possibly related, is that when running aplay with --mmap =

> it will crash with:
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> Internal error: Oops: f3 [#1]
> PC is at snd_pcm_mmap_data_nopage+0x10c/0x148 [snd_pcm]
> LR is at __handle_mm_fault+0x16c/0x8ac

This is likely the problem with dma_alloc_coherent() and mmap on
a non-coherent architecture.  I have patches for these, but only for
recent kernels.  The patches are found in test/dma-fix branch of sound
git tree:
  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git test/dm=
a-fix


Takashi
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