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Bug 244933 - media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.18_rc3: Kernel Oops
Summary: media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.18_rc3: Kernel Oops
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Steve Dibb (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2008-10-29 22:13 UTC by Robert Holzknecht
Modified: 2010-06-06 01:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Robert Holzknecht 2008-10-29 22:13:52 UTC
While loading the driver at startup, a Kernel Ooops happens:

Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon IP: [<f8faaa10>] :snd_hda_intel:snd_hda_resume+0xdb/0x183
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon *pde = 00000000
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon Modules linked in: snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device cpufreq_conservative nvidia(P) usbhi
d wmi hci_usb iwl3945 i2c_i801 snd_hda_intel snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_hwdep snd
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon Pid: 7257, comm: alsactl Tainted: P         (2.6.25-gentoo-r7 #6)
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon EIP: 0060:[<f8faaa10>] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 0
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon EIP is at snd_hda_resume+0xdb/0x183 [snd_hda_intel]
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: f5637a30 EDX: 00000000
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon ESI: f710aa00 EDI: 00000001 EBP: f6ec1d68 ESP: f6ec1d3c
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon Process alsactl (pid: 7257, ti=f6ec0000 task=f6ec4e30 task.ti=f6ec0000)
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon Stack: 0000070d 00000001 f7214600 00000001 00000006 f710ab80 00000006 00000001
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon f7214600 f5c46800 f5c46840 f6ec1d78 f887048c f7214600 f5c46800 f6ec1d88
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon f8870531 f88704e9 f6c3c7c8 f6ec1f50 f886eef9 00000009 f6ec1dec f6c3c7e0
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon Call Trace:
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<f887048c>] ? snd_ctl_make_virtual_master+0x306/0x471 [snd]
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<f8870531>] ? snd_ctl_make_virtual_master+0x3ab/0x471 [snd]
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<f88704e9>] ? snd_ctl_make_virtual_master+0x363/0x471 [snd]
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<f886eef9>] ? snd_ctl_add+0x1194/0x164b [snd]
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<c018d761>] ? do_lookup+0x5a/0x16e
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<c0197622>] ? dput+0x62/0xcb
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<c01726c8>] ? handle_mm_fault+0xe4/0x557
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<c012fbc1>] ? irq_exit+0x3f/0x75
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<f8fa7255>] ? init_module+0x730255/0x7309be [snd_hda_intel]
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<f886e345>] ? snd_ctl_add+0x5e0/0x164b [snd]
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<c0191c32>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x71
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<c0191cd6>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x55/0x264
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<c016167b>] ? handle_fasteoi_irq+0x85/0xbc
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<c0191f38>] ? sys_ioctl+0x53/0x63
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon [<c0104a2a>] ? sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon =======================
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon Code: b7 c9 89 4d e0 0f b6 f9 0f b7 45 e4 89 45 ec 89 7c 24 04 c7 04 24 0d 07 00 00 31 c9 89 c2 89 f0 e8 9e ea ff ff 8b 96 9c 01 00 00
<0f> b7 02 66 85 c0 74 25 89 d3 0f b7 d0 89 7c 24 04 c7 04 24 0d
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon EIP: [<f8faaa10>] snd_hda_resume+0xdb/0x183 [snd_hda_intel] SS:ESP 0068:f6ec1d3c
Oct 29 21:31:13 ndragon ---[ end trace ddd0e7b83025d416 ]---
Comment 1 Robert Holzknecht 2008-10-29 22:14:31 UTC
emerge --info 
---------------
emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7-i686-Genuine_Intel-R-_CPU_T2400_@_1.83GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:36:02 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.6-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.26
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.jamit.de/gentoo/ http://mirror.cambrium.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.pw.edu.pl/ http://gentoo.mirror.dkm.cz/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="de en en_GB en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j7"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/desktop-effects /usr/local/portage/my_ebuilds"
SYNC="rsync://10.0.1.7/gentoo-portage"
USE="16bit 3ds 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi addbookmarks adns adplug afs aio alias alisp alsa amd amr amrnb amrr amrwb ao apache2 apm ares arts async audiofile automount autoreplace avahi badval bash-completion bcmath berkdb bidi big-tables binfilter bittorrent bl bluetooth boehm-gc branding bzip2 cairo calendar caps carbone_theme cardbus catalogs ccache cdb cdda cddb cdf cdparanoia cdr cdrom cdsound cgi chardet chipcard chroot cjk clearcase cli cmdsubmenu connectionstatus contactnotes corba courier cpio cpudetection cracklib crypt css ctype cups curl curlwrappers cvs daap dbase dbus dc1394 de_tvtoday deprecated device-mapper dga dhcp directfb disk-partition diskio divx djbfft djvu dmi dri dts dv dvb dvbplayer dvd dvdr dvdread dvi dxr3 dxr3-audio-denoise dynamic eap-tls eds ee elf emboss emerald enca encode escreen evo exif expat fam fame fastbuild fat fax fbcon fbcondecor fbdev fbsplash ffmpeg fftw filter firefox flac flash flatfile fltk font-server fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fping fpx freetds ftp gadu gd gdbm geoip ggi gif gimp glade glib glitz glut gmedia gmp gnokii gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz groupwise gs gsl gsm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml gtkspell guile h323 hal hash haskell hbci hddtemp hfs highlight history howl-compat ical iconv id3 idea idn ieee1394 ifp ilbc imagemagick imap imlib inifile iodbc ipod ipsec ipv6 ipw3945 irc irda irmc isdnlog it jack jack-tmpfs jad jai java java5 javacomm javascript jbig jce jfs jikes jingle john joystick jpeg jpeg2k json kde kdepim kdm kerberos kipi krb4 ladspa lame laptop lcd lcms ldap libcaca libgda libnotify libsamplerate libssh2 linux-smp-stats lirc live lm_sensors lua lzo math matroska matrox max-idx-128 mbox mbrola mcve md5sum mdb mdnsresponder-compat meanwhile memlimit metalink mfd-rewrites mhash midi mikmod mjpeg mmap mmkeys mmx mmxext mng modplug mono motif mouse mp2 mp3 mp3rtp mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mpi mpi_njtree mplayer msn mssql mtp mudflap multiprocess multiuser musepack music musicbrainz mysql mysqli nas nautilus ncurses nemesi net netjack netmeeting network networking nis njb nls nowlistening nptl nptlonly nsplugin nss ntfs ntlm ntp nvidia obex objc objc++ objc-gc ocaml odbc odk ofx ogg old-daemons openal openexr opengl openmp openntpd openssh optimisememory pam parse-clocks pascal pci pcmcia pcntl pcre pda pdf pdo perforce perl php physfs player pmu png portaudio postgres povray ppds pppd print pulseaudio python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime radio rar readline real realmedia reflection reiser4 reiserfs replytolist rle rpm rrdtool rss rtc rtsp ruby samba sametime sasl scanner screen script sdl sdl-image sensord serial server session sftp sharedext shout sid skins slp smartcard smp sms sndfile snmp soap sockets softfax sound soundex sounds soundtouch speedo speex spell spl sql srp srt sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification statistics stats stream submenu subtitles subversion suhosin svg svga svgz swig sysfs szip tcl tcp tcpd teletext test-programs texteffect textures tga themes theora threads thumbnail thunderbird tiff timidity tivo tk tokenizer tools trace transcode translator transmitter truetype tta tv_check tv_combiner tv_pick_cgi type1 unicode unzip upnp ups urandom usb userlocales utempter utils v4l v4l2 vcd vdr videos vidix vim vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x visualization vlm vnc vorbis vorbis-psy wavpack webdav webpresence wifi win32codecs winbind winpopup wireshark wma wmf wmp x264 x86 x86emu xanim xattr xcb xchatdccserver xcomposite xext xforms xfs xft xine xinerama xml xmldoclet xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xorg xosd xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xsettings xsl xslt xterm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yahoo yaz yv12 zip zlib zoran zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev joystick void" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en en_GB en_US" LIRC_DEVICES="serial" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa vga fbdev"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 2 Robert Holzknecht 2008-10-29 22:17:31 UTC
By the way... i used the alsa-headers-9999 from Oct 29 21:28

Comment 3 Robert Holzknecht 2008-10-29 22:21:34 UTC
Damned...I'v forgotten some additional infos:
This error happens with 2.6.27-r1 as also with 2.6.25-r7
Comment 4 Wormo (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-29 23:19:06 UTC
Is this a regression, or does alsa 1.0.17 oops as well? Also, please show your sound card model in case this is model-specific (output of lspci will show it)
Comment 5 Robert Holzknecht 2008-10-29 23:30:03 UTC
lspci -vv output
------------
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Fujitsu Siemens Computer GmbH Device 10ac
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22
        Region 0: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
        Capabilities: [70] Express (v1) Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
                DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
                        ExtTag- RBE- FLReset-
                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
                        RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                        MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
                DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, Latency L0 <64ns, L1 <1us
                        ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
                LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed unknown, Width x0, TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
        Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?>
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel
Comment 6 Robert Holzknecht 2008-10-29 23:31:43 UTC
I'm currently switched over to the kernel internal drivers on 2.6.27-r1, an they are working well.
I'll try out tomorrow what happens if I use alsa-driver-1.0.17
Comment 7 John-Michael Fischer 2008-10-30 18:49:26 UTC
comfirm on amd64 using hda_intel

lspci
....
00:0e.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP55 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
....
Comment 8 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-30 19:04:03 UTC
@beandog: What is the support policy for media-sound/alsa-driver these days? Could be useful if you described it in <metadata.xml>.
Comment 9 Markus Moll 2008-10-30 23:44:39 UTC
Same problem here. Seems to be a known regression that has already been fixed:

http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-user%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg23608.html
Comment 10 Markus Moll 2008-10-31 18:44:23 UTC
Also, alsa drivers 1.0.18 were released on October 29. From the changelog 1.0.18rc3 -> 1.0.18:

  "ALSA: hda: fix oopses in snd-hda-intel after digital slave support additions" 

as the oops was within snd_ctl_make_virtual_master, I guess that this is the problem we are talking about.
Comment 11 Ivan Grynko 2008-11-05 17:05:23 UTC
After emerging 1.0.18 alsa-driver-package - kernel and all modules loads just fine, but after a while kernel gives me an Oops
------------[ cut here ]------------ 
kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:590! 
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP 
Modules linked in: coretemp w83627ehf hwmon_vid hwmon pppoe pppox ppp_generic slhc ipt_REJECT ipt_ULOG xt_limit ipt_recent xt_tcpudp xt_state xt_multiport iptable_filter iptable_mangle iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack ip_tables x_tables 8021q snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device fuse lirc_serial lirc_dev vboxdrv ata_generic pata_acpi tuner_simple tuner_types tea5767 tuner snd_hda_intel snd_pcm nvidia(P) bttv videodev v4l1_compat pcspkr ir_common compat_ioctl32 i2c_algo_bit i2c_i801 pata_marvell snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_hwdep 8139cp v4l2_common videobuf_dma_sg atl1 8139too snd soundcore videobuf_core btcx_risc tveeprom 
 
Pid: 28418, comm: tvtime Tainted: P          (2.6.27-gentoo-r2 #1) 
EIP: 0060:[<c01880fc>] EFLAGS: 00210046 CPU: 0 
EIP is at kfree+0x3c/0x70 
EAX: c1195900 EBX: f6c978fc ECX: 00000000 EDX: 40000000 
ESI: cb440000 EDI: 00200286 EBP: cc590000 ESP: db923dfc 
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 
Process tvtime (pid: 28418, ti=db922000 task=f2d660f0 task.ti=db922000) 
Stack: f6c978fc cb446400 cc596400 f948d41a 00000680 0013000b 0000000b f6c97800 
      00000043 f948f413 00000043 f6c97800 0000000b 00000000 000b0002 0000000b 
      0013000b e4dce800 f6195540 0000000b f949061f f948f1f4 00000000 00200286 
Call Trace: 
[<f948d41a>] snd_array_new+0x9a/0xc0 [snd_hda_intel] 
[<f948f413>] query_amp_caps+0xc3/0x120 [snd_hda_intel] 
[<f949061f>] snd_hda_mixer_amp_volume_info+0x2f/0x100 [snd_hda_intel] 
[<f948f1f4>] snd_hda_mixer_amp_switch_get+0x64/0xb0 [snd_hda_intel] 
[<f96669d3>] snd_mixer_oss_ioctl_card+0xf83/0x19e0 [snd_mixer_oss] 
[<f96663c1>] snd_mixer_oss_ioctl_card+0x971/0x19e0 [snd_mixer_oss] 
[<f9666bc5>] snd_mixer_oss_ioctl_card+0x1175/0x19e0 [snd_mixer_oss] 
[<f9666ac0>] snd_mixer_oss_ioctl_card+0x1070/0x19e0 [snd_mixer_oss] 
[<f9665326>] init_module+0x10326/0x10a50 [snd_mixer_oss] 
[<f9666670>] snd_mixer_oss_ioctl_card+0xc20/0x19e0 [snd_mixer_oss] 
[<c0178c14>] do_brk+0x174/0x2e0 
[<f9665a40>] init_module+0x10a40/0x10a50 [snd_mixer_oss] 
[<c019991b>] vfs_ioctl+0x2b/0x90 
[<c01999e7>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x67/0x2e0 
[<c0199c9d>] sys_ioctl+0x3d/0x70 
[<c0103339>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x21 
[<c04e0000>] get_cpu_vendor+0x1e/0xa1 
======================= 
Code: 00 40 c1 e8 0c 8d 04 c0 c1 e0 02 03 05 80 02 6a c0 8b 10 f6 c6 40 74 0f 8b 40 0c 8b 10 f6 c6 40 74 05 8b 40 0c 8b 10 84 d2 78 04 <0f> 0b eb fe 8b 48 18 64 a1 04 20 67 c0 8b 1c 81 8b 03 3b 43 04 
EIP: [<c01880fc>] kfree+0x3c/0x70 SS:ESP 0068:db923dfc 
---[ end trace 799140c6c2541005 ]--- 
 
Comment 12 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-11-06 16:22:59 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> @beandog: What is the support policy for media-sound/alsa-driver these days?

As long as I'm maintainer, any bugs will be perpetually ignored.  It's unsupported, only because I'm not skilled to fix anything aside from ebuild issues.

> Could be useful if you described it in <metadata.xml>.

Yah, I'll do that, thanks.

Comment 13 Steve Dibb (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-06-06 01:07:06 UTC
(In reply to comment #12)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > @beandog: What is the support policy for media-sound/alsa-driver these days?
> 
> As long as I'm maintainer, any bugs will be perpetually ignored.  It's
> unsupported, only because I'm not skilled to fix anything aside from ebuild
> issues.
> 
> > Could be useful if you described it in <metadata.xml>.
> 
> Yah, I'll do that, thanks.
> 

Better late than never, I guess.