[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/9] drm: bridge/dw_hdmi-ahb-audio: add audio driver

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:05:07PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 18:10:06 +0200,
> Russell King wrote:
> > +static irqreturn_t snd_dw_hdmi_irq(int irq, void *data)
> > +{
> > +	struct snd_dw_hdmi *dw = data;
> > +	struct snd_pcm_substream *substream;
> > +	unsigned stat;
> > +
> > +	stat = readb_relaxed(dw->data.base + HDMI_IH_AHBDMAAUD_STAT0);
> > +	if (!stat)
> > +		return IRQ_NONE;
> > +
> > +	writeb_relaxed(stat, dw->data.base + HDMI_IH_AHBDMAAUD_STAT0);
> > +
> > +	substream = dw->substream;
> > +	if (stat & HDMI_IH_AHBDMAAUD_STAT0_DONE && substream) {
> > +		snd_pcm_period_elapsed(substream);
> > +		if (dw->substream)
> > +			dw_hdmi_start_dma(dw);
> > +	}
> 
> Don't we need locking?

Possibly.

> In theory, the trigger can be issued while the irq is being handled.

Well, we can't have a lock around the whole of the above, because that
results in deadlock (as snd_pcm_period_elapsed() can end up calling into
the trigger method.)  I'm not happy to throw a spinlock around this
because of the in-built format conversion (something else I'm really not
happy about - which has to exist here because alsalib is soo painful
to add custom sample reformatting to - such modules have to be built
as part of alsalib itself rather than an add-on module.)

> > +static int dw_hdmi_trigger(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, int cmd)
> > +{
> > +	struct snd_dw_hdmi *dw = substream->private_data;
> > +	int ret = 0;
> > +
> > +	switch (cmd) {
> > +	case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_START:
> > +		dw->buf_offset = 0;
> > +		dw->substream = substream;
> > +		dw_hdmi_start_dma(dw);
> > +		dw_hdmi_audio_enable(dw->data.hdmi);
> > +		substream->runtime->delay = substream->runtime->period_size;
> > +		break;
> > +
> > +	case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_STOP:
> > +		dw_hdmi_stop_dma(dw);
> > +		dw_hdmi_audio_disable(dw->data.hdmi);
> > +		break;
> > +
> > +	default:
> > +		ret = -EINVAL;
> > +		break;
> 
> SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_SUSPEND may be passed at suspend, too.

I think rather than adding code which would be difficult for me to test,
I'd instead remove the suspend/resume callbacks, or at least disable them
until someone can test that feature, or is willing to implement it.

> > +static snd_pcm_uframes_t dw_hdmi_pointer(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
> > +{
> > +	struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime = substream->runtime;
> > +	struct snd_dw_hdmi *dw = substream->private_data;
> > +
> > +	return bytes_to_frames(runtime, dw->buf_offset);
> 
> So, this returns the offset that has been reformatted.  Does the
> hardware support any better position reporting?  We may give the delay
> from the driver if possible.

Basically, no.  Reading a 32-bit DMA position as separate bytes while
DMA is active is racy.

This is the best we can do, and the way we report the position has been
arrived at after what's getting on for two years of testing with
pulseaudio, vlc direct access & spdif pass-through, aplay, etc:

Author: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Thu Nov 7 16:01:45 2013 +0000

    drm: bridge/dw_hdmi-ahb-audio: add audio driver

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