[alsa-devel] [PATCH v4] ASoC: omap-mcbsp: Add PM QoS support for McBSP to prevent glitches

Matt Ranostay matt at ranostay.consulting
Sat Dec 24 04:49:30 CET 2016


We can get audio errors if hitting deeper idle states on omaps:

[alsa.c:230] error: Fatal problem with alsa output, error -5.
[audio.c:614] error: Error in writing audio (Input/output error?)!

This seems to happen with off mode idle enabled as power for the
whole SoC may get cut off between filling the McBSP fifo using DMA.
While active DMA blocks deeper idle states in hardware, McBSP
activity does not seem to do so.

Basing the QoS latency calculation on the FIFO size, threshold,
sample rate, and channels.

Based on the original patch by Tony Lindgren
Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9305867/

Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
Cc: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi at ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Ranostay <matt at ranostay.consulting>
---

Changes from v1:
* add calculations for latency per number of FIFO locations

Changes from v2:
* add missing mcbsp.h header change

Changes from v3:
* base the latency calculations on threshold, buffer size, sample
  rate, and channels

 sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.c      | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.h      |  3 +++
 sound/soc/omap/omap-mcbsp.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.c b/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.c
index 06fec5699cc8..8f792e714894 100644
--- a/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.c
+++ b/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <linux/io.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
+#include <linux/pm_qos.h>
 
 #include <linux/platform_data/asoc-ti-mcbsp.h>
 
@@ -640,9 +641,19 @@ void omap_mcbsp_free(struct omap_mcbsp *mcbsp)
  */
 void omap_mcbsp_start(struct omap_mcbsp *mcbsp, int tx, int rx)
 {
+	struct pm_qos_request *pm_qos_req = &mcbsp->pm_qos_req;
 	int enable_srg = 0;
 	u16 w;
 
+	/* Prevent omap hardware from hitting off between fifo fills */
+	if (mcbsp->latency) {
+		if (pm_qos_request_active(pm_qos_req))
+			pm_qos_update_request(pm_qos_req, mcbsp->latency);
+		else
+			pm_qos_add_request(pm_qos_req, PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY,
+					mcbsp->latency);
+	}
+
 	if (mcbsp->st_data)
 		omap_st_start(mcbsp);
 
@@ -731,6 +742,11 @@ void omap_mcbsp_stop(struct omap_mcbsp *mcbsp, int tx, int rx)
 
 	if (mcbsp->st_data)
 		omap_st_stop(mcbsp);
+
+	if (mcbsp->active == 1 && pm_qos_request_active(&mcbsp->pm_qos_req)) {
+		pm_qos_remove_request(&mcbsp->pm_qos_req);
+		mcbsp->latency = 0;
+	}
 }
 
 int omap2_mcbsp_set_clks_src(struct omap_mcbsp *mcbsp, u8 fck_src_id)
@@ -1098,6 +1114,9 @@ int omap_mcbsp_init(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 void omap_mcbsp_cleanup(struct omap_mcbsp *mcbsp)
 {
+	if (pm_qos_request_active(&mcbsp->pm_qos_req))
+		pm_qos_remove_request(&mcbsp->pm_qos_req);
+
 	if (mcbsp->pdata->buffer_size)
 		sysfs_remove_group(&mcbsp->dev->kobj, &additional_attr_group);
 
diff --git a/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.h b/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.h
index 61e93b1c185d..d312e72f7979 100644
--- a/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.h
+++ b/sound/soc/omap/mcbsp.h
@@ -323,8 +323,11 @@ struct omap_mcbsp {
 
 	unsigned int fmt;
 	unsigned int in_freq;
+	unsigned int latency;
 	int clk_div;
 	int wlen;
+
+	struct pm_qos_request pm_qos_req;
 };
 
 void omap_mcbsp_config(struct omap_mcbsp *mcbsp,
diff --git a/sound/soc/omap/omap-mcbsp.c b/sound/soc/omap/omap-mcbsp.c
index d018e966e533..ddaec37fb4c3 100644
--- a/sound/soc/omap/omap-mcbsp.c
+++ b/sound/soc/omap/omap-mcbsp.c
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ static int omap_mcbsp_dai_hw_params(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 	int wlen, channels, wpf;
 	int pkt_size = 0;
 	unsigned int format, div, framesize, master;
+	unsigned int buffer_size = mcbsp->pdata->buffer_size;
 
 	dma_data = snd_soc_dai_get_dma_data(cpu_dai, substream);
 	channels = params_channels(params);
@@ -240,7 +241,9 @@ static int omap_mcbsp_dai_hw_params(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 	default:
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
-	if (mcbsp->pdata->buffer_size) {
+	if (buffer_size) {
+		int latency;
+
 		if (mcbsp->dma_op_mode == MCBSP_DMA_MODE_THRESHOLD) {
 			int period_words, max_thrsh;
 			int divider = 0;
@@ -271,6 +274,22 @@ static int omap_mcbsp_dai_hw_params(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 			/* Use packet mode for non mono streams */
 			pkt_size = channels;
 		}
+
+		latency = ((((buffer_size - pkt_size) / channels) * 1000)
+				 / (params->rate_num / params->rate_den));
+
+		/*
+		 * Use the lowest QoS latency value for active streams, but
+		 * this has the disadvantage of using lower than needed latency
+		 * if an stream with lower QoS ends before one with a higher
+		 * one. Latency setting only gets reset when all streams
+		 * complete.
+		 */
+		if (latency <= mcbsp->latency)
+			mcbsp->latency = latency;
+		else
+			mcbsp->latency = 0;
+
 		omap_mcbsp_set_threshold(substream, pkt_size);
 	}
 
-- 
2.7.4



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