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On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 16:13 +0200, Hans Schou wrote:
Hi
I have a problem with recording sound when using the sound chip SIS7019 with both kernel 2.6.26 and 2.6.34. After recording about 42 minutes it kind a stops recording, more precisely it is taking a pause of exactly 10 seconds between each reading.
As recorder I have tried several programs and all of them fails after 42 minutes. Some programs uses Alsa and some uses the old deprecated method. In this example I have logged sox rec.
Recording method in a script: strace -tt -o strace.log rec -c 1 -r 44100 -2 sox.wav & sleep 3000 kill $?
I think the answer is no, but to be sure -- are you talking directly to the hardware device, or are you going through pulseaudio?
While rec is running, can you capture the configuration using head -1000 /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/sub0/* Once you have the information, there is no need to run it all the way out.
I think that's the right path, but I'm going from memory so you may have to look around under /proc/asound. I'm trying to get my MicroClient up and running again so I can try to reproduce this. This information will help me narrow my focus to the correct area of the driver.
Can you try using arecord? You can use options to tell it how to configure the PCM. Especially interesting will be to configure 2 periods per buffer vs whatever rec uses. 2 periods per buffer uses the hardware interrupts to clock out periods, where as 3+ uses a more complex mechanism. You can also use -M to use mmap vs not.
Recording start 17:41:29 and undtil 18:23:38.977278 it writes about 6-7 times per second to disk. Then it begin only writing every 10 seconds. At this point it had written 27222 times to disk and the amount of data written so far is 28684288 bytes (including wav-header).
WorkARound: When the recording stops, one can just exit 'rec' and start it again and record another 42 minutes. Reboot is not necessary. Apparently, the re-init of the sound chip fixes the problem.
On other systems with nVidia CK804 or emu10k I do not have the same problem.
I have looked at sound/pci/sis7019.c but I do not really know what I should look for. None of the numbers in my observations is in the power of 2 which I would expect it was. Like, I expected it stopped recording after 64MB or so, but that is not the case.
Linux version 2.6.34-norhtec-sis (root@norh) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #7 Wed Jun 16 00:32:56 CEST 2010 (the kernel used was compiled on this system.)
# scripts/ver_linux Gnu C 4.1.2 Gnu make 3.81 binutils 2.17 util-linux 2.12r mount 2.12r module-init-tools 3.3-pre2 e2fsprogs 1.40-WIP Linux C Library scripts/ver_linux: line 63: /proc/self/maps: No such file or directory Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.3.6 Net-tools 1.60 Console-tools 0.2.3 Sh-utils 5.97 udev 105
# lspci -vvv 00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7019 Audio Accelerator Subsystem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7019 Audio Accelerator Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64 (500ns min, 6000ns max) Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: I/O ports at dc00 [size=256] Region 1: Memory at dfff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)[size=16K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Kernel driver in use: SiS7019 Kernel modules: snd-sis7019
Here is a snip from the log file when it goes from reading 7 times per second to every 10th second. Note two times "ioctl" within a second and then it goes over to a delay with 10 seconds between each "ioctl":
18:23:38.611877 ioctl(4, 0x800c4151, 0xbf96b1d0) = 0 18:23:38.784635 gettimeofday({1276446218, 785207}, NULL) = 0 18:23:38.786609 write(2, "\rTime: 42:08.19 [00:00.00] of 00:"..., 78)= 78 18:23:38.789354 write(3,"p\377q\377n\377k\377l\377p\377o\377o\377k\377n\377p\377q\377n\377o\377k\377l\377p"...,4096) = 4096 18:23:38.791590 write(3,"j\377l\377l\377j\377l\377k\377m\377k\377l\377n\377j\377l\377l\377n\377n\377g\377m"...,12288) = 12288 18:23:38.794425 gettimeofday({1276446218, 795024}, NULL) = 0 18:23:38.795762 ioctl(4, 0x800c4151, 0xbf96b1d0) = 0 18:23:38.970451 gettimeofday({1276446218, 971018}, NULL) = 0 18:23:38.972293 write(2, "\rTime: 42:08.37 [00:00.00] of 00:"..., 78)= 78 18:23:38.975134 write(3,"k\377m\377o\377k\377i\377j\377m\377o\377o\377m\377k\377m\377o\377k\377p\377n\377o"...,4096) = 4096 18:23:38.977278 write(3,"m\377j\377p\377n\377n\377r\377m\377o\377o\377o\377l\377h\377l\377l\377m\377o\377o"...,12288) = 12288 18:23:38.980176 gettimeofday({1276446218, 980773}, NULL) = 0 18:23:38.981516 ioctl(4, 0x800c4151, 0xbf96b1d0) = 0 18:23:48.983347 ioctl(4, 0x800c4151, 0xbf96b1d0) = 0 18:23:48.985710 gettimeofday({1276446228, 986317}, NULL) = 0 18:23:48.987784 write(2, "\rTime: 42:08.56 [00:00.00] of 00:"..., 78) = 78 18:23:48.990733 write(3,"j\377k\377l\377l\377l\377n\377l\377q\377q\377j\377l\377m\377m\377p\377o\377o\377q"...,4096) = 4096 18:23:48.992814 write(3,"p\377m\377k\377s\377r\377m\377o\377m\377k\377k\377j\377j\377l\377p\377o\377r\377l"...,12288) = 12288 18:23:48.995694 gettimeofday({1276446228, 996297}, NULL) = 0 18:23:48.997046 ioctl(4, 0x800c4151, 0xbf96b1d0) = 0 18:23:48.999574 gettimeofday({1276446229, 186}, NULL) = 0 18:23:49.003421 write(3,"l\377l\377m\377o\377q\377q\377n\377m\377q\377r\377s\377p\377n\377t\377r\377m\377n"...,4096) = 4096 18:23:49.005517 write(3,"o\377m\377l\377p\377m\377p\377o\377m\377p\377p\377q\377o\377j\377m\377r\377m\377r"...,12288) = 12288 18:23:49.008337 gettimeofday({1276446229, 8945}, NULL) = 0 18:23:49.009699 ioctl(4, 0x800c4151, 0xbf96b1d0) = 0 18:23:59.007878 ioctl(4, 0x800c4151, 0xbf96b1d0) = 0
Version of sox: SoX v14.0.1
Full log file is 780KB compressed: http://schou.dk/linux/sis7019/strace.sis7019.sox-rec.2010-06-13.log.bz2
Hardware system used is a Norhtec MicroClient Jr with SIS550 CPU: http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjrmx/index.html
best regards/hans