[alsa-devel] problem with copy function

[Shahram Shabpareh]

Hi
Thanks for reply

I switched from interleaved to non interleaved mode with the following
command and problem solved. no need to implement the copy function.

aplay -vv -c 32 -f u8 -D plughw:0,0 -I file.wav null.wav null.wav null.wav
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the null.wav file is created from /dev/zero with dd command

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi at sakamocchi.jp>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Jul 19 2016 16:56, Shahram Shabpareh wrote:
> > I have a board with ti am3358 processor. it has a sound port called McASP
> > and I've used IDT821034 as codec. The Linux kernel source package that is
> > included by board company is 3.2.0 and I wrote a basic driver for
> IDT821034
> > codec and changed the code of davinci-mcasp.c . Now the basic
> functionality
> > of system is ok and i have signals on oscilloscope. Another thing is i
> have
> > to setup a specific configuration for this system. the target system must
> > have 32 tdm slots in each frame and 32 PCM channels and each slot is 8
> > bits. this is also done in kernel source code. currently the problem is i
> > want that data of channel 1 be mapped to slot 1, channel 2 be mapped to
> > slot 2, .... and channel 32 be mapped to slot 32. but when i run aplay to
> > send to only channel 1, data will be send to all slots! i want that all
> > slots be 0 except slot 1. How can i do that?
> >
> > I searched in source tree and found the function that i need to override
> > this behaviour is copy that is defined in snd_pcm_ops structure. I
> defined
> > a function called davinci_pcm_copy in davinci-pcm.c file and added the
> > function to structure like below:
> >
> > static struct snd_pcm_ops davinci_pcm_ops = {
> >     ....
> >     .copy = davinci_pcm_copy,
> > };
> >
> > the problem is, this copy function is not called at all by kernel pcm
> > subsystem.
> >
> > Again i searched the kernel code and found that copy function has a
> calling
> > path as below:
> >
> > alsa-lib -> snd_pcm_playback_ioctl -> snd_pcm_playback_ioctl1 ->
> > snd_pcm_lib_write -> snd_pcm_lib_write1 -> snd_pcm_lib_write_transfer ->
> > copy
> >
> > but my calling path is:
> >
> > alsa-lib -> snd_pcm_playback_ioctl -> snd_pcm_playback_ioctl1 ->
> > snd_pcm_common_ioctl1 -> snd_pcm_sync_ptr
> >
> > I created a wav file from a mp3 file with this command:
> >
> > ffmpeg -i file.mp3 -ac 1 -ar 8000 -ab 64k -f u8 file.wav
> >
> > and played with this command:
> >
> > aplay -vv -c 1 file.wav
> >
> > Strange thing is when i run this aplay command in my PC the first calling
> > path is executed but when i run the same aplay with same file in my board
> > the second calling path is executed. Is it related to software and
> hardware
> > params of sound devices? if yes, what should i do to copy function being
> > called in my board?
>
> Would you check output of aplay command in a point of 'access' way? Like:
>
> $ aplay -v -D hw:0,0 -f S16_LE -r 44100 -c 2 /dev/urandom
> ...
> Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA Intel PCH' device 0 subdevice 0
> Its setup is:
>   stream       : PLAYBACK
>   access       : RW_INTERLEAVED
> ...
>
> In this case, the process executes ioctl(2) with
> SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_WRITEI_FRAMES, thus the .copy() in kernel is probably
> executed.
>
> But in this case:
> $ aplay -v -D plughw:0,0 /dev/urandom
> ...
> Slave: Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA Intel PCH' device 0 subdevice 0
> Its setup is:
>   stream       : PLAYBACK
>   access       : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
> ...
>
> The process run with mmap(2)ed page frame, thus PCM frames are not
> transferred by ioctl(2).
>
> Before going to the details, please check it.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Takashi Sakamoto
>