Buffers used in ASoC Intel Atom SST driver

[Takashi Iwai]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:59:36 +0200,
Cezary Rojewski wrote:
> 
> On 2022-08-18 5:42 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > while cleaning up / fixing the memory allocation code, I noticed that
> > Intel SST driver is the only driver that currently uses the
> > SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_CONTINUOUS pages for its PCM buffer.
> > 
> > Is there any reason not to use the standard device buffer
> > (SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV)?  i.e. the change like below.
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Does not hurt to check the change out. I'm not aware of such
> limitation for any of Intel's AudioDSP solutions. I cannot test this
> change though as ATOM devices are not part of my CI. Pierre, do you
> have any devices where this change could be tested?
> 
> Adding Hans as he is the key intel/atom maintainer too and I'm pretty
> sure he has few devices on his own.

Oh yeah, thanks, Hans might be able to check.
FWIW, the patch I asked is like below.


Takashi

-- 8< --

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: sst: Switch to standard device pages

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
---
 sound/soc/intel/atom/sst-mfld-platform-pcm.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst-mfld-platform-pcm.c b/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst-mfld-platform-pcm.c
index a56dd48c045f..c75616a5fd0a 100644
--- a/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst-mfld-platform-pcm.c
+++ b/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst-mfld-platform-pcm.c
@@ -676,10 +676,9 @@ static int sst_soc_pcm_new(struct snd_soc_component *component,
 
 	if (dai->driver->playback.channels_min ||
 			dai->driver->capture.channels_min) {
-		snd_pcm_set_managed_buffer_all(pcm,
-			SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_CONTINUOUS,
-			snd_dma_continuous_data(GFP_DMA),
-			SST_MIN_BUFFER, SST_MAX_BUFFER);
+		snd_pcm_set_managed_buffer_all(pcm, SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV,
+					       pcm->card->dev,
+					       SST_MIN_BUFFER, SST_MAX_BUFFER);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
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