[regression, 5.10.y] Bug 216861 - sound disappearance on Acer Swift 3 SF314-59-78UR after update to 5.10.157

PÁLFFY Dániel dpalffy at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 13:05:59 CET 2023


Another report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/76795
Apparently, folks at alsa-devel traced down the dependencies of that patch,
see the mail thread at
https://lore.kernel.org/all/dc65501c-c2fd-5608-c3d9-7cea184c3989%40opensource.cirrus.com/

On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 1:42 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Jan 2023 11:43:36 +0100,
> Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > [Adding as well Richard Fitzgerald and PÁLFFY Dániel to recipients]
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 09:08:57AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > Hi, this is your Linux kernel regression tracker speaking.
> > >
> > > I noticed a regression report in bugzilla.kernel.org. As many (most?)
> > > kernel developer don't keep an eye on it, I decided to forward it by
> > > mail. Quoting from https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216861
> :
> > >
> > > >  Sergey 2022-12-29 10:07:51 UTC
> > > >
> > > > Created attachment 303497 [details]
> > > > pulseaudio.log
> > > >
> > > > Sudden sound disappearance was reported for some laptops, e.g.
> > > >
> > > > Acer Swift 3 SF314-59-78UR 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @
> 2.80GHz
> > > >
> > > > # lspci
> > > > 0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Tiger
> Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 20)
> > > >         Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 148c
> > > >         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 197, IOMMU
> group 12
> > > >         Memory at 601f270000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> > > >         Memory at 601f000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
> > > >         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
> > > >         Capabilities: [80] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
> > > >         Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
> > > >         Kernel driver in use: sof-audio-pci
> > > >
> > > > I am attaching the pulseaudio and dmesg logs
> > > >
> > > > This bug started reproducing after updating the kernel from 5.10.156
> to 5.10.157
> > > >
> > > > Bisection revealed the commit being reverted:
> > > >
> > > > c34db0d6b88b1da95e7ab3353e674f4f574cccee is the first bad commit
> > > > commit c34db0d6b88b1da95e7ab3353e674f4f574cccee
> > > > Author: Richard Fitzgerald <rf at opensource.cirrus.com>
> > > > Date:   Fri Nov 4 13:22:13 2022 +0000
> > > >
> > > >     ASoC: soc-pcm: Don't zero TDM masks in __soc_pcm_open()
> > > >
> > > >     [ Upstream commit 39bd801d6908900e9ab0cdc2655150f95ddd4f1a ]
> > > >
> > > >     The DAI tx_mask and rx_mask are set by snd_soc_dai_set_tdm_slot()
> > > >     and used by later code that depends on the TDM settings. So
> > > >     __soc_pcm_open() should not be obliterating those mask values.
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > > Original bug report: https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/44690
> > >
> > > See the ticket for more details.
> > >
> > > BTW, let me use this mail to also add the report to the list of tracked
> > > regressions to ensure it's doesn't fall through the cracks:
> > >
> > > #regzbot introduced: c34db0d6b88b1d
> > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216861
> > > #regzbot title: sound: asoc: sudden sound disappearance
> > > #regzbot ignore-activity
> >
> > FWIW, we had as well reports in Debian after having updated the kernel
> > from 5.10.149 based one to 5.10.158 based one in the last point
> > releases, they are at least:
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/1027483
> > https://bugs.debian.org/1027430
>
> I got another report while the commit was backported to 5.14-based
> openSUSE Leap kernel, and I ended up with dropping it.
>
> So, IMO, it's safer to drop this patch from the older stable trees.
> As far as I see, 5.15.y and 5.10.y got this.
>
> Unless anyone gives a better fix, I'm going to submit a revert patch
> for those trees.
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi
>


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