[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/5] ASoC: Hold runtime PM references to components of active DAIs

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 04:53:00PM +0200, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On 12/05/2011 03:46 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Well, the pcm_mutex doesn't cover all of those anyway (trigger and
> > pointer in particular) and we've no guarantee that anything will
> > actually happen at the point where the core does the calls as there may
> > be other things holding the device active.

> It covers the soc_pcm_open, and soc_pcm_close sequences.

It's a pretty limited subset (and of course it won't cover the cases
where one DAI is in two PCMs).

> > I don't understand how this could make the situation any worse than it
> > is already - if nothing else this series will only make the region where
> > we've got the device active slightly wider.

> The ordering of the pm_runtime_get/put will be different.
> We will have the pm_runtime_put after all other parts of the audio
> system has been closed, turned off.

Hrm, yes.  But that's much wider than just the issue with moving inside
the pcm_lock - for example, the shutdown calls already come before the
DAPM teardowns.

> > There's definitely an issue
> > there, but it seems like it already exists and is orthogonal to this
> > refactoring.  The McPDM needs to hold a reference on the CODEC somehow
> > while it is active it seems, either via DAPM or via the runtime_pm APIs.
> 
> Yes, this is the reason we do not have the BIAS_OFF support in twl6040
> still. I'm working on to integrate the external fclk (bit clock from
> twl6040) for McPDM with pm_runtime so we are not going to have issues
> with missing clocks.
> But as I said at this time we do not have issues since the fclk for
> McPDM is always present.
> This change actually gives more incentive to do the pm_runtime support
> for the McPDM external fclk ;)

So it sounds like things are OK with the proposed patch then, though
there's still some larger issues to work through?