After upgrading to Linux 5.8 I discovered an audio issue on my device that was introduced in 8ec7d6043263ecf250b9b7c0dd8ade899487538a [0]. I used 'git bisect' to identify the commit that introduced the bug and have confirmed that reverting the commit resolves the problem
Reproduction:
1. Play any audio via PulseAudio. 2. Observe that the audio output is fuzzy and choppy.
I can use programs like mpv to play audio without PulseAudio, and the audio is fine, but as soon as I open a process that uses PulseAudio it will ruin the audio output for all processes (including mpv) until I reboot.
I'm using a 2015 Chromebook Pixel ("Samus") and have confirmed this problem with a friend who has the same device.
Is there anything I can do to help debug this instead of sending a patch to revert the commit?
Relevant lspci output:
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller (rev 09) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 50 Region 0: Memory at e1218000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Address: fee00378 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [70] Express (v1) Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0 ExtTag- RBE- FLReset+ DevCtl: CorrErr- NonFatalErr- FatalErr- UnsupReq- RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop- FLReset- MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes DevSta: CorrErr- NonFatalErr- FatalErr- UnsupReq- AuxPwr- TransPend- Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
[0]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=8...