[alsa-devel] [PATCH 09/18] ASoC: Samsung: Do not queue cyclic buffers multiple times

[Tomasz Figa]

On Wednesday 28 of August 2013 09:06:27 Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > The legacy S3C-DMA API required every period of a cyclic buffer to be
> > queued separately. After conversion of Samsung ASoC to Samsung DMA
> > wrappers somebody made an assumption that the same is needed for DMA
> > engine API, which is not true.
> > 
> > In effect, Samsung ASoC DMA code was queuing the whole cyclic buffer
> > 
> > multiple times with a shift of one period per iteration, leading to:
> >   a) severe memory waste - up to 13x times more DMA transfer
> >   descriptors
> >   
> >      are allocated than needed,
> >   
> >   b) possible memory corruption, because further cyclic buffers were
> >   out
> >   
> >      of the original buffers, due to the offset.
> > 
> > This patch fixes this problem by making the legacy S3C-DMA API use the
> > same semantics as DMA engine (the whole cyclic buffer is enqueued at
> > once) and modifying users of Samsung DMA wrappers in cyclic mode to
> > behave appropriately.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa at gmail.com>
> > Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> 
> If patch 1 thru 9 are uncontroversial now, maybe Vinod can apply
> these for v3.12 so we can get less noise and risk of collissions
> in the next merge window?
> 
> Just an idea.

That would be nice, leaving only Samsung-specific patches for the next 
merge window.

(That would be patches 1 to 8, though, as 9 is a patch for ASoC that could 
be picked up by Mark Brown independently.)

Best regards,
Tomasz