[alsa-devel] Arecord issue

[Daniel Mack]

Please do not top-post.

On 11.10.2012 16:44, kartik natarajan wrote:
> Thanks!
>           At about the same time I check the behaviour on the
> oscilloscope and inferred the same that there is no clock on the bus
> when arecord is executed.
> A little digging further, I see that the codec chip is set to master in
> both cases, aplay and arecord. But somehow it drives the clock in the
> former case and not in the other.
>
> So this problem is not related to either of aplay/ arecord but more of
> the PCM level behaviour, as it is at this level the master for the bus
> is decided.

Please have a look at the latest changes to this driver found here:


https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/topic/davinci

I changed many of these details to make the driver fit into more
environments. If you find a solution to this problem, please post a
patch that applies on top of this tree.

> I'll get back with any information I get on this.
> Your mail has just made my findings easier. Thanks again.

You're welcome :)


Daniel




> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Daniel Mack <zonque at gmail.com
> <mailto:zonque at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 11.10.2012 14:54, kartik natarajan wrote:
>     >     I am working on a 2.6.37 kernel and on a DM365 davinci board
>     with a
>     > tlv320aic3254 audio codec (i2c control lines, i2s data transfer)
>     > I wanted to get the audio up on my board so got the alsa-lib and
>     alsa-utils
>     > 1.0.25 compiled them and got the aplay to work fine.
>     > When I got to working on the arecord things haven't worked fine. I
>     have
>     > traced all the calls and have reached so far;
>     > codec gets set properly
>     > davinci_pcm_trigger executes with success
>     > snd_pcm_sw_params() executes successfully.
>     > aplay calls begin_wave()
>     > aplay calls pcm_read() that invokes  snd_pcm_readi()
>     > Finally my app seems to not go beyond the snd_pcm_start()
> 
>     I've been working on a custom AM33xx boards lately which features the
>     same digital audio interface than the Davincis do.
> 
>     I've been running into similar issues when I tested the recording
>     channels, and hooking up a logic analyzer showed that the clocks were
>     not driven by the CPU. That causes the DMA engine not receive any
>     samples (as the frame and bit clocks are missing), which will eventually
>     lead to a timeout.
> 
>     This issue was worked around for now by starting the playback first and
>     then the record. Unfortunately though, a simply "arecord | aplay" does
>     not suffice, as aplay won't start before it received any samples from
>     its input side, so you have a deadlock here.
> 
>     So I wrote a very simple test tool in order to prove that the overall
>     system is working and published it here:
> 
>       https://github.com/zonque/simple-alsa-loop
> 
>     For the application of this board I'm working on, there's no case where
>     we would record anything but not use the output, so this workaround will
>     do for me. If you have other requirements, you might need to dig deeper.
>     Note that the driver has seem quite some refactorization in 3.7.
> 
> 
>     Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> 
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