From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Ram <vshrirama@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Debugging uninterruptible sleep causing drivers
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:38:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071119083815.4e520c83@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bf247760711190509s20527d86nd79dcf7a9b8b9095@mail.gmail.com>
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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2007-11-19 13:09 Ram
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