[alsa-devel] mapping externally allocated Scatter Gather DMA buffers
Jaroslav Kysela
perex at perex.cz
Wed Nov 10 16:05:55 CET 2010
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Manu Abraham wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz> wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Manu Abraham wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, so period should be the interval at which an IRQ is expected.
>>> ie, if i set a buffer size for 40mS, the period should be 40, I guess.
>>>
>>> That said, what should be a recommended value for period ? If hardware
>>> needs to generate an IRQ at the end of each period ?
>>
>> It's good to allow the lowledevel driver to pass all possible period sizes
>> to the user space. The application does decision how many wakeups expects.
>
>
> Ok, I adapted it to look thus,
>
> static struct snd_pcm_hardware saa7231_capture_info = {
> .info = (SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP |
> SNDRV_PCM_INFO_INTERLEAVED |
> SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BLOCK_TRANSFER |
> SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP_VALID),
>
> .formats = (SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S16_LE |
> SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S16_BE |
> SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S8 |
> SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_U8 |
> SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_U16_LE |
> SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_U16_BE),
>
> .rates = SNDRV_PCM_RATE_32000,
>
> .rate_min = 32000,
> .rate_max = 48000,
>
> .channels_min = 2,
> .channels_max = 2,
>
> .buffer_bytes_max = 512 * 4096,
> #if 0
> .period_bytes_min = 192,
> .period_bytes_max = 1536,
> .periods_min = 2,
> .periods_max = 1024,
> #endif
> .period_bytes_min = 1920, /* 10mS @ 48khz */
> .period_bytes_max = 768000, /* 4S @ 48kHz */
>
> .periods_min = 10, /* 10mS */
> .periods_max = 4000000, /* 4S */
??? 10 (period_bytes_min) * 10 (periods_min) = 100mS . Note that
period_bytes_* limits periods size, but periods_* count of periods per the
whole audio DMA ring buffer. Define smallest number of periods (it's
usually value one or two for periods_min).
> };
>
> /*
> * 10mS Buffer lengths
> * @48kHz 1920 bytes
> * @44.1kHz 1764 bytes
> * @32kHz 1280 bytes
> *
> *
> * period min = 10mS @48k: 1920 bytes @44.1k: 1764 bytes @32k: 1280 bytes
> * period max = 1S @48k:192000 bytes @44.1k:176400 bytes @32k:128000 bytes
> * period = 4S @48k:768000 bytes @44.1k:705600 bytes @32k:512000 bytes
> */
> static int saa7231_capture_open(struct snd_pcm_substream *pcm)
> {
> struct saa7231_audio *audio = snd_pcm_substream_chip(pcm);
> struct snd_pcm_runtime *rt = pcm->runtime;
> struct saa7231_dev *saa7231 = audio->saa7231;
> int err;
>
> dprintk(SAA7231_DEBUG, 1, "()");
> rt->hw = saa7231_capture_info;
> snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list(rt, 0, SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_RATE,
> &hw_constraint_rates);
> err = snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer(rt, SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_PERIODS);
> if (err < 0) {
> dprintk(SAA7231_ERROR, 1, "snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer() failed.
> ret=%d", err);
> return err;
> }
> err = snd_pcm_hw_constraint_minmax(rt,
> SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_PERIOD_SIZE, 10, 4000000);
> if (err < 0) {
> dprintk(SAA7231_ERROR, 1, "snd_pcm_hw_constraint_minmax() failed.
> ret=%d", err);
> return err;
> }
> err = snd_pcm_hw_constraint_minmax(rt,
> SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_PERIOD_BYTES, 1920, 768000);
> if (err < 0) {
> dprintk(SAA7231_ERROR, 1, "snd_pcm_hw_constraint_minmax() failed.
> ret=%d", err);
> return err;
> }
Remove these minmax contrains. You already do limiting in hw->ops.
> return 0;
> }
>
> /*
> * saa7231_hw_params()
> *
> * This callback is called when the hardware parameter (hw_params) is setup
> * by the application, ie., once when the buffer size, the period size,
> * the format etc are defined for the PCM substream.
> */
> static int saa7231_hw_params(struct snd_pcm_substream *pcm, struct
> snd_pcm_hw_params *params)
> {
> struct saa7231_audio *audio = snd_pcm_substream_chip(pcm);
> struct saa7231_dev *saa7231 = audio->saa7231;
> struct snd_pcm_runtime *rt = pcm->runtime;
>
> struct saa7231_dmabuf *buffer;
> struct saa7231_stream *stream;
> struct saa7231_dmabuf *dmabuf;
>
> struct page **ptable;
>
> void *mem;
> void *dma_area;
>
> int i, j, pages, bytes, periods, bufsiz, pt_size;
>
> dprintk(SAA7231_DEBUG, 1, "DEBUG: ()");
> periods = params_periods(params);
> bytes = params_period_bytes(params);
>
> bufsiz = periods * bytes;
> dprintk(SAA7231_DEBUG, 1, "bufsiz=%d periods=%d bytes=%d",
> bufsiz,
> periods,
> bytes);
>
> pages = bufsiz / PAGE_SIZE;
This is wrong. It should be 'pages = (bufsize + PAGE_SIZE - 1) / PAGE_SIZE'.
> /* enable stream */
> /* initializing 8 buffer with "pages" pages each .. */
> stream = saa7231_stream_init(saa7231, AUDIO_CAPTURE, ADAPTER_INT, 0, pages);
> if (!stream) {
> dprintk(SAA7231_ERROR, 1, "ERROR: Registering stream");
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
> audio->stream = stream;
> buffer = stream->dmabuf;
> saa7231_add_irqevent(saa7231, 43, SAA7231_EDGE_RISING,
> saa7231_audio_evhandler, "AS2D_AVIS");
> dprintk(SAA7231_DEBUG, 1, "Mapping %d buffers with %d pages each",
> XS2D_BUFFERS, pages);
Unfortunately, I don't understand the role of XS2D_BUFFERS. The ALSA
bufsize is the whole DMA area (you should use params_buffer_bytes() to
get this value instead of calculating this using periods * period_size).
It means: Just allocate number of pages required for buffer_bytes. Don't
play with periods (except the interrupts).
> /*
> * For a single DMA buffer:
> * each page takes a u64 size in a page table
> * number of entries a single page can hold = PAGE_SIZE / entry size
> * ie entries.max = PAGE_SIZE / 8 => 4096/8 = 512
> * Now, we have entries.req = 7 ("pages") per buffer
> *
> * For all in XS2D_BUFFERS:
> * page table should be large enough to hold all the pages in each DMA buffer
> * total number of pages = pages * XS2D_BUFFERS
> * max buffers that we need to consider = 512 * 8, this needs 8 pages
> for a page table
> *
> * On a general note, we can calculate pages for page table as
> * page_table_size = total_pages / 512, with a minimum of a single page
> */
>
> #define MAX_ENTRIES_PER_PAGE (PAGE_SIZE / 8)
>
> pt_size = (pages * XS2D_BUFFERS) / MAX_ENTRIES_PER_PAGE;
> /* minimum 1 page required for the table */
> if (pt_size < 1)
> pt_size = 1;
>
> dprintk(SAA7231_DEBUG, 1, "Page Table array size=%d", pt_size);
> ptable = kzalloc((sizeof (struct page) * pt_size), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!ptable) {
> dprintk(SAA7231_ERROR, 1, "ERROR: No memory to allocate virtual map");
> return -ENOMEM;
> }
> audio->ptable = ptable;
>
> for (i = 0; i < XS2D_BUFFERS; i ++) {
> dmabuf = &buffer[i];
> mem = dmabuf->vmalloc;
> for (j = 0; j < pages; j++)
> ptable[j] = virt_to_page(mem);
> }
This looks broken. ptable is overwritten for each XS2D_BUFFERS iteration.
> #if 0
> dma_area = vmap(ptable, (pages * XS2D_BUFFERS), VM_MAP, PAGE_KERNEL);
> rt->dma_area = dma_area;
> rt->dma_bytes = XS2D_BUFFERS * pages * SAA7231_PAGE_SIZE;
> rt->dma_addr = 0;
> #endif
> return 0;
> }
I think that the second argument is number of linux mem pages. Your value
seems strange.
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.
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