[pvrusb2] Looking for kernel oops evidence...

[Mike Isely]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 xavier.gnata at free.fr wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> It looks strange...
> I have try to plug/unplug the card very quickly but I can't reprodude that :(
> We may add a debug test just before this line to store important pointers values
> into the logs when sp is NULL (ok that is trivial so not very helpful ;))
> @+
> Xavier

I just spent most of last night chasing this.  So far I've been unable to
reproduce the problem.

I in fact implemented something similar to what you described.  I added a
signature word to the structure which is being checked now in front of a
number of functions.  If the check fails, the code will print the file
name and line number of the failure along with the contents of the buffer
and then it should force an oops.  I've been running mplayer against this
version of the driver now for the past 6 hours and it's still working
perfectly.

BTW, while inspecting the code last night for this problem, I found a
memory leak.  I'll have a new snapshot with that fixed before the weekend
is over (no time this morning but hopefully tonight).  The leak happens
when streaming is stopped - the control buffers are not being freed but
their pointers are being tossed.  This is obviously a bad problem.

  -Mike

-- 
                        |         Mike Isely          |     PGP fingerprint
     Spammers Die!!     |                             | 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92
                        |   isely @ pobox (dot) com   | 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8
                        |                             |