[alsa-devel] [PATCH v5 0/4] Propagate errors out from compressed streams

[Charles Keepax]

If the DSP suffers an unrecoverable error, the driver likely
knows about this, however the framework may not get informed
because errors returned from pointer requests are ignored within
the framework.

Things work out fine if user-space is doing a read as reads
return error status back to user-space so the user can find out
that things have gone bad. However, if user-space is doing an
avail request there is no path for the error to come back up to
user-space. The pointer request returns zero available data, so a
read never happens and we basically just end up sitting waiting
for data on a stream that we know full well has died.

This patch set attempts to address this and ensure that errors
are fully propagated to user-space and we don't ever end up wait
for data that will never come.

Changes since v4:
 - Fix issue noticed by Vinod whereby the error state was being
   overwritten when snd_compr_stop was called

It might be easiest to put the ASoC changes through Mark's tree
as there are some merge conflicts otherwise, as such I have based
this series on Mark's tree.

Thanks,
Charles

Charles Keepax (4):
  ALSA: compress: Replace complex if statement with switch
  ALSA: compress: Add function to indicate the stream has gone bad
  ASoC: wm_adsp: Use new snd_compr_stop_error to signal stream failure
  ASoC: compress: Pass error out of soc_compr_pointer

 include/sound/compress_driver.h |  5 +++
 sound/core/compress_offload.c   | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 sound/soc/codecs/wm_adsp.c      | 11 ++++--
 sound/soc/soc-compress.c        |  5 +--
 4 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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