Re: Recent kernels sound crash solution found?

[Alan Cox]

>          * Now loop until we get a free buffer. Try to get smaller buffer if
>          * it fails. Don't accept smaller than 8k buffer for performance
>          * reasons.
>          */
>     ===>  _here_ is a dead-loop  <===
>         while (start_addr == NULL && dmap->buffsize > PAGE_SIZE) {

It terminates when dmap->bufsise hits  page size
>                 start_addr = (char *) __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC|GFP_DMA, sz);
>                 if (start_addr == NULL)
>                         dmap->buffsize /= 2;

I see no bug