This series of patch is an attempt to fix the fsl_ssi driver to use it in TDM mode (DSP A or B) with a large number of channels/slots.
Version 2: - fixing a missing patch - checkpatch.pl - ... well, learning how to send a patchset. Sorry. ;)
Bugs are detected and fixed on a imx6sl platform with linux 4.3, where 2 SSI interfaces are used. SSI3 configured as a master of the bus, SSI2 as a slave.
Various loopback scenario are tested: * scenario 1: SSI3 (master) with TXD to RXD loopback
| |---> TXD --\ SSI3 |<--- RXD --/ (master) |---> SYNC |---> BCLK | * scenario 2: SSI3 connected to SSI2 | |---> TXD --------\ SSI3 |<--- RXD -----\ | (master) |---> SYNC --\ | | |---> BCLK | | | | | | | | | | | | | |<--- BCLK | | | SSI2 |<--- SYNC --/ | | (slave) |---> TXD ------/ | |<--- RXD --------/ |
A test software (called atest) was developed and available. [1] It basically generate/check specials frames with S16_LE sequence samples NNN0, NNN1, NNN2 ... NNNC with NNN = frame number, and C the number of channels-1
Patch 1: Limitation fix. Prerequisite to use the fsl_ssi driver with up to 32 channels / slots
Patch 2: Bug fix. Prerequisite to setup a relative high bitclk for our tests in 8ch / 16bits / 48kHz
Patch 3: Simply save a 'dev' reference inside ssi_private for dev_err() purpose. (ssi_private is only available in lot of places, and ssi_private->pdev is deprecated and NULL indeed)
Patch 4: Fix playback samples being dropped because the TX fifo was not ready at the time the DMA starts filling (only in case where playback is started AFTER the capture)
Detected in loopback scenario 1, with following script (> 80 % of reproducibility) $ atest -D SSI3 -c 8 -r 48000 capture play dbg: set period size: 960 dbg: SSI3: capture_start dbg: SSI3: playback_start err: invalid frame after 1 null frames err: 0000 0000 0013 0014 0015 0016 0017 0020 dbg: SIGINT total number of sequence errors: 21119 here we see that samples 0000 0001 ... 0012 are not present in the output. In addition, this the number of samples dropped is not a multiple of the number of channel, we have a a channel slip.
Patch 5: This is the Caleb Crome's case [2], where the SSI starts to generate samples while the TX FIFO is not filled by the DMA yet. Void samples can be inserted before DMA streaming.
Detected in loopback scenario 2, with following script (reproducibility < 1%) $ atest -D SSI3 -c 8 -r 48000 capture & $ sleep 0.2 $ atest -d 1 -D SSI2 -c 8 -r 48000 play dbg: SSI3: capture_start dbg: set period size: 960 dbg: SSI2: playback_start dbg: start a 1 seconds duration timer err: invalid frame after 11568 null frames err: 0000 0010 0011 0012 0013 0014 0015 0016 err: 0017 0020 0021 0022 0023 0024 0025 0026
Patch 6: Deals with Capture restart whereas Playback is still running (or the opposite, Playback restart whereas Capture is till running). Capture restart whereas Playback case is detected in loopback scenario 1 (reproducibility 100%). A playback session is running in background, and 2 consecutive Captures are performed. The first is fine, the second fails. We see at the 2nd capture startup that we receive 15 samples still pending in the RX FIFO from the previous capture session. => We are receiving invalid samples + slips the channels $ atest -D SSI3 -c 8 -r 48000 play & dbg: SSI3: playback_start $ atest -d 1 -D SSI3 -c 8 -r 48000 capture dbg: SSI3: capture_start dbg: start a 1 seconds duration timer warn: Valid frame after 1 null frames warn: 3a90 3a91 3a92 3a93 3a94 3a95 3a96 3a97 total number of sequence errors: 0 $ atest -I 5 -d 1 -D SSI3 -c 8 -r 48000 capture # restart the capture dbg: SSI3: capture_start dbg: start a 1 seconds duration timer err: invalid frame after 1 null frames err: 8dd6 8dd7 8de0 8de1 8de2 8de3 8de4 8de5 err: 8de6 8de7 8df0 8df1 8df2 8df3 8df4 c0c0 err: c0c1 c0c2 c0c3 c0c4 c0c5 c0c6 c0c7 c0d0 err: c0d1 c0d2 c0d3 c0d4 c0d5 c0d6 c0d7 c0e0 err: c0e1 c0e2 c0e3 c0e4 c0e5 c0e6 c0e7 c0f0
Playback restart whereas Capture case is also detected with loopback scenario 1 (reproducibility 100%), capturing continuously, and playing by periods of time. $ atest -a -D SSI3 -c 8 -r 48000 capture play -r 1000,200 dbg: SSI3: capture_start dbg: SSI3: playback_start dbg: SSI3: will stop every 1000 ms during 200 ms warn: Valid frame after 4 null frames warn: 0010 0011 0012 0013 0014 0015 0016 0017 warn: SSI3: PT_W4_STOP warn: SSI3: PT_W4_RESTART err: invalid frame after 1602 null frames err: eaa1 eaa2 eaa3 eaa4 eaa5 eaa6 eaa7 eab0 err: eab1 eab2 eab3 eab4 5810 5811 5812 5813 dbg: stop on first error total number of sequence errors: 143
Both cases are resolved by using the mostly undocumented SOR.RX_CLR and SOR TX_CLR (we can find the documentation in IMX51 reference manual at section 56.3.3.15). Arnaud
[1] https://github.com/amouiche/atest [2] http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2015-October/099221.htm...
Arnaud Mouiche (6): ASoC: fsl_ssi: Real hardware channels max number is 32 ASoC: fsl_ssi: The IPG/5 limitation concerns the bitclk, not the sysclk. ASoC: fsl_ssi: Save a dev reference for dev_err() purpose. ASoC: fsl_ssi: Fix samples being dropped as Playback startup ASoC: fsl_ssi: Fix channel slipping in Playback at startup ASoC: fsl_ssi: Fix channel slipping on capture (or playback) restart in full duplex.
sound/soc/fsl/fsl_ssi.c | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)