[alsa-devel] playback write error (DMA or IRQ trouble)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:26:01 +0530,
Harsha priya gupta wrote:
> 
> I implemented the copy function and immediately transfered the user block data
> to the hardware.
> 
> Correct me if am wrong;
> .pointer implementation - passes the current buffer pointer. When the .pointer
> function returns the size of the buffer = user buffer size logically I need to
> expect the hardware to send an interrupt because buffer is consumed and I
> should call snd_pcm_period_elapsed after that.
>
> what would happen if i call the snd_pcm_period_elapsed from the pointer
> function once the buffer is consumed from hardware. Would that be right?  This
> is what i am trying to do

The logic is reversed.
The pointer callback is a passive one that does nothing but returning
the current h/w buffer position.  This is called either from
snd_pcm_period_elapsed() or at the PCM status update.

You must call snd_pcm_period_elapsed() somewhere in your driver
*explicitly* at the timing that one period is finished.  Usually, this
is done in an IRQ handler the h/w generates at the period ("fragment",
"half-buffer", or whatever) boundary.

And note that the valid value from the pointer callback is between 0
and buffer_size-1 as it handles the buffer as a ring-buffer.  The
value buffer_size is invalid.


Takashi

> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> 
>     At Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:39:31 +0530,
>     Harsha priya gupta wrote:
>     >
>     > Can anyone give me a clue as to when i would get such an error?
>    
>     ... only if you give more clue what exactly you did.
>    
>     In general, it implies that an interrupt isn't issued properly at PCM
>     period boundary.
> 
>     Takashi
> 
> --
> -Harsha
> 
>