Hi Takashi,
Thanks for your reply and suggestions. Finally we have found the root
cause.
Seems it's related to both drivers and alsa-lib.
When two dmix clients run in parallel we get two direct dmix
instances.
1st dmix instance: snd_pcm_dmix_open() snd_pcm_direct_initialize_slave() save_slave_setting() Since the driver we are using has SND_PCM_INFO_RESUME flag, dmix->spcm->info has this flag. Then this flag is cleared in
dmix->shmptr->s.info.
2nd dmix instance: snd_pcm_dmix_open() snd_pcm_direct_open_secondary_client() copy_slave_setting() 2nd dmix->spcm->info is copied from dmix->shmptr->s.info so it doesn' has this flag.
If 1st dmix instance resumes firstly it should implement recovery of slave pcm in snd_pcm_direct_slave_recover(). Because 1st dmix->spcm->info has SND_PCM_INFO_RESUMEļ¼snd_pcm_resume(direct->spcm) can be
called
correctly to resume slave pcm.
... and immediately stop the stream, then prepare and restart as a usual restart.
However if 2nd dmix instance resumes firstly, snd_pcm_resume(direct->spcm) will not be called because it's spcm->info doesn't has SND_PCM_INFO_RESUME flag. The 1st dmix
instance
assumes someone else already did recovery so snd_pcm_resume(direct->spcm) won't be called neither. In result the slave pcm fails to resume.
Something wrong happening here, then.
In dmix, there is no hardware resume at all, but it's always a restart of the stream. The call of snd_pcm_resume() is only temporarily for
inconsistencies
that can be a problem on some drivers (IIRC dmaengine stuff). That said, dmix does a kind of fake resume, stops and restarts the stream cleanly on
the
first instance. On the second instance, it's already recovered, hence it
bails
out.
If poll() hangs on the second instance, there can be some other problem. Maybe the resume -> stop -> restart sequence doesn't work with your
driver
well?
Our dma driver will do PAUSE in system suspend and requires doing RESUME
in
system resume. Current problem is that snd_pcm_resume() is not called by
both
1st instance and 2nd instance.
That's weird. Are you really testing with the latest alsa-lib code?
If application doesn't call snd_pcm_resume(), it means that the PCM state isn't set to SUSPENDED, so it pretends as if still running.
Or if you mean that snd_pcm_resume() to the slave PCM isn't called (even though snd_pcm_resume() is called for the dmix PCM), check whether snd_pcm_direct_slave_recover() gets called, especially at the point:
/* some buggy drivers require the device resumed beforeprepared;
* when a device has RESUME flag and is in SUSPENDED state,resume * here but immediately drop to bring it to a sane active state. */ if (state == SND_PCM_STATE_SUSPENDED && (direct->spcm->info & SND_PCM_INFO_RESUME)) { snd_pcm_resume(direct->spcm); snd_pcm_drop(direct->spcm); snd_pcm_direct_timer_stop(direct); snd_pcm_direct_clear_timer_queue(direct); }
Try to put debug prints or catch via breakpoint whether this code path is executed.
Also, does the issue happen with the latest 6.11-rc kernel, too? If yes, what if you drop SNDRV_PCM_INFO_RESUME bit flag in the driver side? Does the problem persist, or it works?
I'm working on kernel 6.6 and alsa-lib v1.2.11. It's not so outdated I think and then I will try to switch on the latest version.
Indeed I did some debug on this part. Please see my comments inline.
int snd_pcm_direct_slave_recover(snd_pcm_direct_t *direct) { ...
/* [Chancel] * When two dmix clients run in parallel we get two direct dmixinstances.
* 1st dmix->spcm->info has SND_PCM_INFO_RESUME flag but 2nddmix doesn't.
OK, that must be the cause. It's because the second open copies the saved shmem->s.info into spcm->info at its open time while we already dropped the INFO_RESUME bit. All the rest behavior are side effect of this inconsistency.
I guess dropping the INFO_RESUME bit at hw_params and hw_refine should work instead. A totally untested fix is below.
(And I believe the drop of INFO_PAUSE should be handled similarly, too, instead of dropping spcm->info bit there.)
Takashi
--- a/src/pcm/pcm_direct.c +++ b/src/pcm/pcm_direct.c @@ -1018,6 +1018,7 @@ int snd_pcm_direct_hw_refine(snd_pcm_t *pcm, snd_pcm_hw_params_t *params) } dshare->timer_ticks = hw_param_interval(params, SND_PCM_HW_PARAM_PERIOD_SIZE)->max / dshare->slave_period_size; params->info = dshare->shmptr->s.info;
params->info &= ~SND_PCM_INFO_RESUME;#ifdef REFINE_DEBUG snd_output_puts(log, "DMIX REFINE (end):\n"); snd_pcm_hw_params_dump(params, log); @@ -1031,6 +1032,7 @@ int snd_pcm_direct_hw_params(snd_pcm_t *pcm, snd_pcm_hw_params_t * params) snd_pcm_direct_t *dmix = pcm->private_data;
params->info = dmix->shmptr->s.info;
params->info &= ~SND_PCM_INFO_RESUME; params->rate_num = dmix->shmptr->s.rate; params->rate_den = 1; params->fifo_size = 0;@@ -1183,8 +1185,6 @@ static void save_slave_setting(snd_pcm_direct_t *dmix, snd_pcm_t *spcm) COPY_SLAVE(buffer_time); COPY_SLAVE(sample_bits); COPY_SLAVE(frame_bits);
dmix->shmptr->s.info &= ~SND_PCM_INFO_RESUME;}
#undef COPY_SLAVE
Thanks Takashi,
This patch can fix this issue on my side. From my test both dmix1->spcm->info and dmix2->spcm->info has SND_PCM_INFO_RESUME flag and snd_pcm_resume() can be successfully called by first resumed instance. I don't understand this patch well. Are you meant to drop SND_PCM_INFO_RESUME from dmix and keep it in slave pcm?
BTW, when will this patch merged to mainline?
Regards, Chancel Liu