[linux-dvb] Re: vfree during spin_lock hold (Was: (In)consistencyof DMX/DVR buffers and OSD ioctls)

[Andreas Schultz <aschultz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

Hi,

Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:10:06AM +0100, Ralph Metzler wrote:

[...]

> Im my experience it's better to reload the DVB driver in such
> a case.  I've seen never an arm crash which recovers without
> that.  Such crashes happens in replay mode of VDR with fast forward
> or backward and OSD usage afterwards.

Also, the StarWars Episode I DVD startup stills/copyright messages with OSD 
activity afterwards have the same effect. I traced it to the OSD_SetBlock 
function triggering the crash. I'll try to write a demo that crashes the 
ARM reliably with that. Maybe that will help finding the problem.

Andreas





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