While playing a soundfile using my Tascam us-122 (Alsa Module snd-usx2y). After a few seconds the sound stutters and i get an Kernel oops. I'm using the latest alsa drivers 1.0.5. With kernel 2.6.6. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2 usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 3 usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 3 usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 4 ALSA /var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-1.0.5/work/alsa-driver-1.0.5/alsa-kernel/usb/usbmidi.c:149: urb status -108 Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:1967 in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():1 Call Trace: [<c0115087>] __might_sleep+0xb7/0xe0 [<c013a903>] __kmalloc+0xa3/0xb0 [<c0278e81>] usb_alloc_urb+0x21/0x60 [<f89c6765>] snd_usX2Y_substream_prepare+0xd5/0x1c0 [snd_usb_usx2y] [<f89c6387>] snd_usX2Y_urb_play_start+0xa7/0x170 [snd_usb_usx2y] [<f89c65af>] snd_usX2Y_pcm_play_trigger+0x3f/0x50 [snd_usb_usx2y] [<f895e0d8>] snd_pcm_do_start+0x28/0x30 [snd_pcm] [<f895ddb9>] snd_pcm_action_single+0x39/0x70 [snd_pcm] [<f895de63>] snd_pcm_action+0x73/0x80 [snd_pcm] [<f895e19d>] snd_pcm_start+0x1d/0x30 [snd_pcm] [<f8966c2c>] snd_pcm_lib_write1+0x3bc/0x4b0 [snd_pcm] [<c011288c>] do_page_fault+0x34c/0x550 [<f8966db1>] snd_pcm_lib_write+0x91/0xb0 [snd_pcm] [<f89667c0>] snd_pcm_lib_write_transfer+0x0/0xb0 [snd_pcm] [<f896196b>] snd_pcm_playback_ioctl1+0x33b/0x3b0 [snd_pcm] [<f8c85a0a>] nv_kern_isr+0x26/0x59 [nvidia] [<c0161450>] sys_ioctl+0x100/0x270 [<c010400b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Gentoo Base System version 1.4.15 Portage 2.0.50-r7 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0, 2.6.6) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://194.83.57.2/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi acpi4linux aim alsa antlr apache2 apm avi berkdb bluetooth bonobo cddb cdr chroot crypt cups devfs26 doc dvd encode esd ethereal evo fam foomaticdb gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml ieee1394 imagemagick imlib irda java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpeg4 msn ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner sdl slang sox spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype usb vanilla x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
This is a upstream problem, please go file a bug with the ALSA developers.