[alsa-devel] Duplicate wake-ups in pcm_lib.c

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, pl bossart wrote:

>>> I couldn't figure out who generates this null event, and even better
>>> it does not show in the report printed by my test app. I am somewhat
>>> lost here as to how snd_pcm_playback_poll works.
>>
>> Note that do_poll() in linux/fs/select.c first checks all given fds
>> if there's an event. So probably the userspace just called poll() for a
>> reason in different timing than sound one (processing event from another fd
>> or so). I believe it's normal behaviour.
>
> This was tested with alsa-lib/test/pcm.c; there's only one call to
> poll() with a -1 timeout value. What I fail to understand is why I see
> this null event in pcm_native.c, and nothing reported in userspace by
> the wait_for_poll() loop in alsa-lib/test/pcm.c

Userspace: poll() syscall
Kernel: do_poll()
 	1) call f_ops->poll callback to ensure that poll condition is
 	   not set (it's usually your null event)
 	2) go to sleep and wait for wake_up
 	3) call f_ops->poll callback again to check which fd woke up
 	4) leave to user space

The f_ops->poll callback is called twice in a normal situation.

 					Jaroslav


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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.