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

Matt Ranostay matt at ranostay.consulting
Tue Jan 3 06:10:39 CET 2017


On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi at ti.com> wrote:
> Matt,
>
> On 12/24/2016 05:49 AM, Matt Ranostay wrote:
>> 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/
>
> I think it would be much better if...
>
>> 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);
>> +     }
>
> int stream1 = tx ? SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK : SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE;
> int stream2 = tx ? SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE : SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK;
> unsigned int latency;
>
> if (!mcbsp->latency[stream2] ||
>     mcbsp->latency[stream1] < mcbsp->latency[stream2])
>         latency = mcbsp->latency[stream1];
> else
>         latency = mcbsp->latency[stream2];
>
> if (latency) {
>         if (pm_qos_request_active(pm_qos_req))
>                 pm_qos_update_request(pm_qos_req, latency);
>         else
>                 pm_qos_add_request(pm_qos_req, PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY,
>                                    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;
>> +     }

Seems reasonable solution for this.  Although I suspect if there are
multiple McBSP channel pairs it could be an issue...
But baby steps I guess to get this hashed out for a correct QoS

I'll test this to confirm it works as well as the current solution.

- Matt

>
> if (pm_qos_request_active(&mcbsp->pm_qos_req)) {
>         int stream1 = tx ? SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK :
>                            SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE;
>         int stream2 = tx ? SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE :
>                            SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK;
>
>         mcbsp->latency[stream1] = 0;
>         if (mcbsp->latency[stream2])
>                 pm_qos_update_request(pm_qos_req,
>                                       mcbsp->latency[stream2]);
>         else
>                 pm_qos_remove_request(&mcbsp->pm_qos_req);
> }
>
> So we fall back to the qos needed for the remaining stream.
>
>>  }
>>
>>  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;
>
> unsigned int latency[2];
>
>>       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;
>
> mcbsp->latency[substream->stream] = latency;
>
>> +
>>               omap_mcbsp_set_threshold(substream, pkt_size);
>>       }
>>
>>
>
> What do you think?
>
> --
> Péter


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