[alsa-devel] [snd_ali5451] snd_ali5451 0000:00:06.0: BUG: , pos = 16384, buffer size = 16384, period size = 1024

[Takashi Iwai]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 21:53:45 +0200,
Enrico Mioso wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> First of all: thank you for your work and kindness.
> It seems your patch solves the problem: the message is not printed in the dmesg; I wasn't able to find other occurrencies of the messages in my dmesg after applying this patch and loading the modified module.
> thank you very much for this effort and everything, and sorry for me being late.
> You've always been responsive in general, sorry if I didn't in some cases.

OK, now I queued the fix.  Thanks for testing!


Takashi

> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> ==Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:50:07
> ==From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> ==To: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs at gmail.com>
> ==Cc: alsa-devel at alsa-project.org
> ==Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [snd_ali5451] snd_ali5451 0000:00:06.0: BUG: ,
> ==    pos = 16384, buffer size = 16384, period size = 1024
> ==
> ==On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 18:43:11 +0200,
> ==Enrico Mioso wrote:
> ==> 
> ==> After using the system for some time, the following is present on my dmesg:
> ==> $ dmesg -t | grep -i ali5 | sort | uniq
> ==> 
> ==> pnp 00:06: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs ALI5123 PNP0510 (active)
> ==> snd_ali5451 0000:00:06.0: AC'97 1 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer.
> ==> snd_ali5451 0000:00:06.0: AC'97 1 does not respond - RESET
> ==> snd_ali5451 0000:00:06.0: ali mixer 1 creating error.
> ==> snd_ali5451 0000:00:06.0: enabling device (0005 -> 0007)
> ==> snd_ali5451 0000:00:06.0: invalid position: , pos = 16384, buffer size = 16384, period size = 1024
> ==> snd_ali5451 0000:00:06.0: invalid position: , pos = 16385, buffer size = 16384, period size = 1024
> ==
> ==The kernel warning itself can be fixed by the patch below.
> ==The remaining question is whether this covers all; do the playback and
> ==capture still work well despite of these messages?  Or do you actually
> ==encounter the overrun / underrun?
> ==
> ==In anyway, let me know whether the patch works.
> ==
> ==
> ==thanks,
> ==
> ==Takashi
> ==
> ==---
> ==diff --git a/sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c b/sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c
> ==index 36470af7eda7..92b819e4f729 100644
> ==--- a/sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c
> ==+++ b/sound/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c
> ==@@ -1408,6 +1408,7 @@ snd_ali_playback_pointer(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
> == 	spin_unlock(&codec->reg_lock);
> == 	dev_dbg(codec->card->dev, "playback pointer returned cso=%xh.\n", cso);
> == 
> ==+	cso %= runtime->buffer_size;
> == 	return cso;
> == }
> == 
> ==@@ -1428,6 +1429,7 @@ static snd_pcm_uframes_t snd_ali_pointer(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
> == 	cso = inw(ALI_REG(codec, ALI_CSO_ALPHA_FMS + 2));
> == 	spin_unlock(&codec->reg_lock);
> == 
> ==+	cso %= runtime->buffer_size;
> == 	return cso;
> == }
> == 
> ==
>