Bug#613979: [alsa-devel] Problems with snd_hda_intel in Linux kernel 2.6.38

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:42:57 +0200,
Svante Signell wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 00:42 +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 15:13 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > > Svante Signell wrote:
> > > > Code: f4 01 00 00 ef 31 f6 48 89 df e8 15 dd ff ff 85 c0
> > > > 0f 88 2b 03 00 00 48 89 ef e8 ee 11 b9 e0 8b 7b 40 e8 9f 25 a7 e0 48 8b
> > > > 43 38 <66> 8b 10 66 89 14 24 8b 43 14 83 e8 03 83 f8 01 77 32 31 d2 be
> > > 
> > >    5:   31 f6                   xor    %esi,%esi
> > >    7:   48 89 df                mov    %rbx,%rdi
> > >    a:   e8 15 dd ff ff          callq  0xffffffffffffdd24
> > >    f:   85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
> > >   11:   0f 88 2b 03 00 00       js     0x342
> > >   17:   48 89 ef                mov    %rbp,%rdi
> > >   1a:   e8 ee 11 b9 e0          callq  0xffffffffe0b9120d
> > >   1f:   8b 7b 40                mov    0x40(%rbx),%edi
> > >   22:   e8 9f 25 a7 e0          callq  0xffffffffe0a725c6
> > >   27:   48 8b 43 38             mov    0x38(%rbx),%rax
> > >   2b:   66 8b 10                mov    (%rax),%dx         <-- crash here
> > >   2e:   66 89 14 24             mov    %dx,(%rsp)
> > >   32:   8b 43 14                mov    0x14(%rbx),%eax
> > >   35:   83 e8 03                sub    $0x3,%eax
> > >   38:   83 f8 01                cmp    $0x1,%eax
> > >   3b:   77 32                   ja     0x6f
> > >   3d:   31 d2                   xor    %edx,%edx
> > > 
> > > This is the azx_readw(chip, GCAP) in azx_create(); chip->remap_addr is
> > > 0xffffc90011c08000 which does look like a valid pointer, but isn't.
> > 
> > Thank you Clemens! Maybe your input is sufficient to solve this problem.
> > I have now installed the debug version of the kernel, the objdump output
> > is attached (please let me know if you are missing something).sorry, I
> > don't know where to find the relevant information in this file, but that
> > is all I have (still very large). (Does not include the error messages
> > on stderr, maybe something is still missing.)
> 
> Anything happening here with respect to this bug? How can I help
> further? Booting with 2.6.32 all the time does not feel lika a good
> solution in long term.

The point where it Oops implies that the problem isn't in the sound
driver but rather in a breakage in a deeper level, either PCI core,
x86 mm or ACPI/BIOS.

Any chance to bisect the kernel?


thanks,

Takashi