On Nov 25, Don Lewis wrote:
> On 25 Nov, Don Lewis wrote:
> > On 25 Nov, Artur Poplawski wrote:
> >> Artur Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> On a 5.1-RELEASE and 5.2-BETA machines I have been able to cause a panic
> >>> like this:
> >
> >>> Sleeping on "swread" with the following non-sleepable locks held:
> >>> exclusive sleep mutex pcm0:play:0 (pcm channel) r = 0 (0xc1c3d740) locked @ \
> >>> /usr/src/sys/dev/sound/pcm/dsp.c:146
> >
> > This enables the panic.
> >
> >>> panic: sleeping thread (pid 583) owns a non-sleepable lock
> >
> > Then the panic happens when another thread tries to grab the mutex.
> >
> >
> > The problem is that the pcm code attempts to hold a mutex across a call
> > to uiomove(), which can sleep if the userland buffer that it is trying
> > to access is paged out. Either the buffer has to be pre-wired before
> > calling getchns(), or the mutex has to be dropped around the call to
> > uiomove(). The amount of memory to be wired should be limited to
> > 'sz' as calculated by chn_read() and chn_write(), which complicates the
> > logic. Dropping the mutex probably has other issues.
>
> Following up to myself ...
>
> It might be safe to drop the mutex for the uiomove() call if the code
> set flags to enforce a limit of one reader and one writer at a time to
> keep the code from being re-entered. The buffer pointer manipulations
> in sndbuf_dispose() and sndbuf_acquire() would probably still have to be
> protected by the mutex. If this can be made to work, it would probably
> be preferable to wiring the buffer. It would have a lot less CPU
> overhead, and would work better with large buffers, which could still be
> allowed to page normally.
Don,
I never would have suspected that uio might sleep and panic,
thanks for the clue.
Artur,
Could you try the attached patch.
Thanks,
--Mat
--
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living
that wears you out.
- Chekhov
--- channel.c Sun Nov 9 04:17:22 2003
+++ /sys/dev/sound/pcm/channel.c Wed Nov 26 02:21:14 2003
@@ -250,6 +250,8 @@
{
int ret, timeout, newsize, count, sz;
struct snd_dbuf *bs = c->bufsoft;
+ void *off;
+ int t, x,togo,p;
CHN_LOCKASSERT(c);
/*
@@ -291,7 +293,22 @@
sz = MIN(sz, buf->uio_resid);
KASSERT(sz > 0, ("confusion in chn_write"));
/* printf("sz: %d\n", sz); */
+#if 0
ret = sndbuf_uiomove(bs, buf, sz);
+#else
+ togo = sz;
+ while (ret == 0 && togo> 0) {
+ p = sndbuf_getfreeptr(bs);
+ t = MIN(togo, sndbuf_getsize(bs) - p);
+ off = sndbuf_getbufofs(bs, p);
+ CHN_UNLOCK(c);
+ ret = uiomove(off, t, buf);
+ CHN_LOCK(c);
+ togo -= t;
+ x = sndbuf_acquire(bs, NULL, t);
+ }
+ ret = 0;
+#endif
if (ret == 0 && !(c->flags & CHN_F_TRIGGERED))
chn_start(c, 0);
}
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