Re: system keeps freezing once every 24 hours / random apps crashing

["Jiri Slaby" <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>]

Jiri Slaby wrote:
>Mark v Wolher wrote:
>>> Still no crashes or irregular things happened ! Will let it go for a few
>>> more hours. This test is being done with the binary nvidia module loaded
>>> and bttv disabled. The next test will be nv for X instead of the binary
>>> module with bttv enabled, if crashes and such start to occur then it's
>>> very likely that the problem sits in the bttv code.
>>
>>
>>Okay, here are the test results:
>>
>>
>>- heavy load + nvidia (binary module) + bttv with grabdisplay = crash
>>- heavy load + nv (not tainted kernel) + bttv with grabdisplay = crash
>>
>>- heavy load + nvidia (binary module) + bttv with overlay = OK
>>- heavy load + nv (not tainted kernel) + bttv with overlay = OK
>>
>>Adding vmware on top of it will cause the system sooner to freeze/crash
>>(using grabdisplay)
>>
>>So what you think guys ?
>Hi,
>we still think that there is a problem in bttv_risc_packed in computing
>estimated size. My patch was bad, I see it now, but still don't understand, how
>it is computed and how it should be:
>        instructions  = (bpl * lines) / PAGE_SIZE + lines;
>        instructions += 2;
>and here it crashes (the first line, the (*rp)) -- actually after while loop.
>	*(rp++)=cpu_to_le32(BT848_RISC_WRITE|BT848_RISC_EOL|todo);
>	*(rp++)=cpu_to_le32(sg_dma_address(sg));
>So, Mauro (or somebody from list), have you any idea, what could be wrong?  
Mark, could you try the Duncan's patch, it seems, that's it:
http://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2006/1/25/59/1

regards,
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