[alsa-devel] Sample format coversion bug?
Hello,
I am writing an application that uses ALSA, and I don't want to write code to support all possible sample formats. On IRC, I asked whether it is OK to support only S24 format internally and rely on the "plug" to do the required conversion. I got a positive answer, but, when testing my application against my SAA7134-based tuner as a capture device, found that it doesn't work.
The problem is also reproducible with "arecord". Given that plughw:1 refers to a SAA7134-based tuner (which obviously doesn't support S24_LE natively), running the following command
arecord -vvv -f S24_LE -c 2 -r 32000 -D plughw:1 /dev/null
produces the following output:
ALSA lib pcm_mmap.c:369:(snd_pcm_mmap) mmap failed: Invalid argument arecord: set_params:961: Unable to install hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S24_LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 32 FRAME_BITS: 64 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 32000 PERIOD_TIME: 125000 PERIOD_SIZE: 4000 PERIOD_BYTES: 32000 PERIODS: 4 BUFFER_TIME: 500000 BUFFER_SIZE: 16000 BUFFER_BYTES: 128000 TICK_TIME: 4000
This is on Debian, the kernel is 2.6.22-2-amd64, libasound2 is 1.0.14a-2. Same for S32_LE.
At Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:18:42 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Hello,
I am writing an application that uses ALSA, and I don't want to write code to support all possible sample formats. On IRC, I asked whether it is OK to support only S24 format internally and rely on the "plug" to do the required conversion. I got a positive answer, but, when testing my application against my SAA7134-based tuner as a capture device, found that it doesn't work.
The problem is also reproducible with "arecord". Given that plughw:1 refers to a SAA7134-based tuner (which obviously doesn't support S24_LE natively), running the following command
arecord -vvv -f S24_LE -c 2 -r 32000 -D plughw:1 /dev/null
produces the following output:
ALSA lib pcm_mmap.c:369:(snd_pcm_mmap) mmap failed: Invalid argument arecord: set_params:961: Unable to install hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S24_LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 32 FRAME_BITS: 64 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 32000 PERIOD_TIME: 125000 PERIOD_SIZE: 4000 PERIOD_BYTES: 32000 PERIODS: 4 BUFFER_TIME: 500000 BUFFER_SIZE: 16000 BUFFER_BYTES: 128000 TICK_TIME: 4000
Well, apparently something wrong with mmap, then. Does the device really support 24bit format? S24_LE isn't 3bytes format but packed into the lower 3 bytes in 4 byte frames.
Takashi
At Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:01:12 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Takashi Iwai wrote:
Well, apparently something wrong with mmap, then.
Do you mean "something is wrong with the kernel driver" or "plug really expects mmap access to the card to be available"?
The latter case. Does your driver support mmap?
Does the device really support 24bit format?
No, it doesn't - that's the whole point of the test. I expected "plug" to guess that the device supports a 16-bit format, record 16-bit samples from the hardware, multiply all recorded samples by 256, and return the result as 32-bit words (so that the result is a set of valid S24_LE samples, even though the least significant byte is always zero).
Then yes, it should work like that.
Takashi
Takashi Iwai wrote:
Well, apparently something wrong with mmap, then.
Do you mean "something is wrong with the kernel driver" or "plug really expects mmap access to the card to be available"?
Does the device really support 24bit format?
No, it doesn't - that's the whole point of the test. I expected "plug" to guess that the device supports a 16-bit format, record 16-bit samples from the hardware, multiply all recorded samples by 256, and return the result as 32-bit words (so that the result is a set of valid S24_LE samples, even though the least significant byte is always zero).
S24_LE isn't 3bytes format but packed into the lower 3 bytes in 4 byte frames.
Yes, I know.
Takashi Iwai wrote:
The latter case. Does your driver support mmap?
Unfortunately, I am at work now, writing from Windows, and cannot check for sure. The driver name is "saa7134-alsa", and, according to http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/file/6b1892ed1e74/linux/drivers/media/video/sa..., it does support mmap.
Takashi Iwai wrote:
Does your driver support mmap?
It looks like the hardware doesn't accept the default parameters:
patrakov@home:~$ arecord -M -f S16_LE -c 2 -r 32000 -D hw:1 /dev/null Recording WAVE '/dev/null' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 32000 Hz, Stereo ALSA lib pcm_mmap.c:369:(snd_pcm_mmap) mmap failed: Invalid argument arecord: set_params:961: Unable to install hw params: ACCESS: MMAP_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S16_LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 16 FRAME_BITS: 32 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 32000 PERIOD_TIME: 125000 PERIOD_SIZE: 4000 PERIOD_BYTES: 16000 PERIODS: 4 BUFFER_TIME: 500000 BUFFER_SIZE: 16000 BUFFER_BYTES: 64000 TICK_TIME: 4000
Even though mmap seems to be supported in the driver source (judging from .info = SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP | other flags), I could not figure out the parameters that work. Moreover, the driver seems to accept the same hardware parameters without the mmap, and I could not find parameters that the driver accepts for mmap.
Also: I have retested my original problem with the virtual ens1370 card emulated by qemu. The original testcase does work, so the problem seems to be specific to saa7134, due to non-working mmap access. Could you please help me transform my observations into something that the v4l development list will accept as a good bug report?
One more question: since plug doesn't work at all on devices without mmap available, does this mean that I should scrap my original idea about using plug to convert everything into S24?
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Even though mmap seems to be supported in the driver source (judging from .info = SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP | other flags), I could not figure out the parameters that work. Moreover, the driver seems to accept the same hardware parameters without the mmap, and I could not find parameters that the driver accepts for mmap.
I do not think the saa7134-alsa driver supports mmap. The cx88-alsa driver also claimed to support mmap, but it never worked until I fixed it. It's pretty clear that the code in saa7134-alsa was based on the same code as cx88-alsa, so it's likely it has the same bug.
One more question: since plug doesn't work at all on devices without mmap available, does this mean that I should scrap my original idea about using plug to convert everything into S24?
Does plug require mmap? It does it just require that devices which claim to support mmap actually work in mmap mode?
Trent Piepho wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Even though mmap seems to be supported in the driver source (judging from .info = SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP | other flags), I could not figure out the parameters that work. Moreover, the driver seems to accept the same hardware parameters without the mmap, and I could not find parameters that the driver accepts for mmap.
I do not think the saa7134-alsa driver supports mmap. The cx88-alsa driver also claimed to support mmap, but it never worked until I fixed it. It's pretty clear that the code in saa7134-alsa was based on the same code as cx88-alsa, so it's likely it has the same bug.
You are right. The patch below (based on your cx88 patch, but I don't really understand it) fixes mmap support in saa7134-alsa for me. Recording via mmap (arecord -M -f S16_LE -c 2 -r 32000 -D hw:1) didn't work at all before, works now, tested for at least 20 minutes (but, unfortunately, with one overrun at least 0.719 ms long).
Signed-off-by: Alexander E. Patrakov patrakov@ums.usu.ru
--- saa7134-alsa.c 2007-10-12 22:43:44.000000000 +0600 +++ saa7134-alsa.c 2007-10-30 21:01:10.000000000 +0500 @@ -544,8 +544,10 @@ V4L functions, and force ALSA to use that as the DMA area */
substream->runtime->dma_area = dev->dmasound.dma.vmalloc; + substream->runtime->dma_bytes = dev->dmasound.bufsize; + substream->runtime->dma_addr = 0;
- return 1; + return 0;
}
@@ -653,6 +655,17 @@ }
/* + * page callback (needed for mmap) + */ + +static struct page *snd_card_saa7134_page(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, + unsigned long offset) +{ + void *pageptr = substream->runtime->dma_area + offset; + return vmalloc_to_page(pageptr); +} + +/* * ALSA capture callbacks definition */
@@ -665,6 +678,7 @@ .prepare = snd_card_saa7134_capture_prepare, .trigger = snd_card_saa7134_capture_trigger, .pointer = snd_card_saa7134_capture_pointer, + .page = snd_card_saa7134_page, };
/*
At Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:24:44 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Trent Piepho wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
Even though mmap seems to be supported in the driver source (judging from .info = SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP | other flags), I could not figure out the parameters that work. Moreover, the driver seems to accept the same hardware parameters without the mmap, and I could not find parameters that the driver accepts for mmap.
I do not think the saa7134-alsa driver supports mmap. The cx88-alsa driver also claimed to support mmap, but it never worked until I fixed it. It's pretty clear that the code in saa7134-alsa was based on the same code as cx88-alsa, so it's likely it has the same bug.
You are right. The patch below (based on your cx88 patch, but I don't really understand it) fixes mmap support in saa7134-alsa for me. Recording via mmap (arecord -M -f S16_LE -c 2 -r 32000 -D hw:1) didn't work at all before, works now, tested for at least 20 minutes (but, unfortunately, with one overrun at least 0.719 ms long).
Signed-off-by: Alexander E. Patrakov patrakov@ums.usu.ru
Looks good to me.
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de
Takashi
--- saa7134-alsa.c 2007-10-12 22:43:44.000000000 +0600 +++ saa7134-alsa.c 2007-10-30 21:01:10.000000000 +0500 @@ -544,8 +544,10 @@ V4L functions, and force ALSA to use that as the DMA area */
substream->runtime->dma_area = dev->dmasound.dma.vmalloc;
- substream->runtime->dma_bytes = dev->dmasound.bufsize;
- substream->runtime->dma_addr = 0;
- return 1;
- return 0;
}
@@ -653,6 +655,17 @@ }
/*
- page callback (needed for mmap)
- */
+static struct page *snd_card_saa7134_page(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
unsigned long offset)+{
- void *pageptr = substream->runtime->dma_area + offset;
- return vmalloc_to_page(pageptr);
+}
+/*
- ALSA capture callbacks definition
*/
@@ -665,6 +678,7 @@ .prepare = snd_card_saa7134_capture_prepare, .trigger = snd_card_saa7134_capture_trigger, .pointer = snd_card_saa7134_capture_pointer,
- .page = snd_card_saa7134_page,
};
/*
-- Alexander E. Patrakov
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