next-0519 on thinkpad x60: sound related? window manager crash

[Takashi Iwai]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 14:07:48 +0200,
Alex Xu (Hello71) wrote:
> 
> Excerpts from Takashi Iwai's message of June 14, 2020 5:54 am:
> > On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 18:25:22 +0200,
> > Alex Xu (Hello71) wrote:
> >> 
> >> Excerpts from Takashi Iwai's message of June 11, 2020 1:11 pm:
> >> > Thanks, so something still missing in the mmap handling, I guess.
> >> > 
> >> > I've worked on two different branches for potential fixes of your
> >> > problems.  Could you test topic/dma-fix and topic/dma-fix2 branches?
> >> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git
> >> > Just pull one of them onto Linus' git HEAD.
> >> > 
> >> > I guess we'll go with David's new patch, but still it's interesting
> >> > whether my changes do anything good actually.
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > Takashi
> >> > 
> >> 
> >> On torvalds 623f6dc593, topic/dma-fix causes sound to be output as 
> >> alternating half-second bursts of noise and a few seconds of silence. 
> >> topic/dma-fix2 appears to work properly.
> > 
> > OK, thanks for the feedback!  Just to make sure, you're using
> > PulseAudio, right?
> > If so, it was still something wrong about mmap, and the secondary
> > method (the fallback to the continuous page) looks like a safer
> > approach in the end.
> > 
> > I suppose that David's fix will be merged sooner or later.  Meanwhile
> > I'll work on the change in the sound driver side to make things a bit
> > more robust.  They don't conflict and both good applicable.
> > 
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Takashi
> > 
> 
> Ah, no, I think that wasn't clear. I use ALSA directly with mostly 
> default configuration, except an asym sets separate default playback and 
> record devices.
> 
> asound.conf:
> 
> defaults.pcm.card 1
> defaults.ctl.card 1
> 
> pcm.!default {
>     type asym
>     playback.pcm
>     {
>         type plug
>         slave.pcm "dmix"
>     }
>     capture.pcm
>     {
>         type plug
>         slave.pcm {
>             type dsnoop
>             ipc_key 6793
>             slave.pcm "hw:U0x46d0x81d"
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> I think I wasn't able to set defaults.pcm.dmix.card and 
> defaults.pcm.dsnoop.card for some reason, not sure why. I can try that, 
> but I don't think it will affect this mmap issue.

The dmix is an implementation exclusively with mmap, so yes, it's
still about the mmap.  This also shows the same problem.


thanks,

Takashi