snd_pcm_mmap_begin returns 0 but sets areas to NULL

snd_pcm_mmap_begin returns 0 but sets areas to NULL

[Carlo Wood]

Is it ever allowed that:

    snd_pcm_channel_area_t const* areas;
    snd_pcm_uframes_t offset;
    snd_pcm_uframes_t size = period_size;
    if (size > 0)
    {
      snd_pcm_uframes_t frames = size;
      int err = snd_pcm_mmap_begin(handle, &areas, &offset, &frames);

returns err == 0, but results in areas == NULL ?

Or is that a bug in alsa?

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Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>


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Re: snd_pcm_mmap_begin returns 0 but sets areas to NULL

[Carlo Wood]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:51:58PM +0200, Carlo Wood wrote:
>       int err = snd_pcm_mmap_begin(handle, &areas, &offset, &frames);
> 
> returns err == 0, but results in areas == NULL ?

I looked deeper into it, and it happens because
snd_pcm_mmap_begin returns snd_pcm_mmap_areas()
which returns pcm->running_areas:

314     static inline const snd_pcm_channel_area_t *snd_pcm_mmap_areas(snd_pcm_t *pcm)
315     {
316             if (pcm->stopped_areas &&
317                 snd_pcm_state(pcm) != SND_PCM_STATE_RUNNING)
318                     return pcm->stopped_areas;
319             return pcm->running_areas;
320     }

where

(gdb) p *pcm
$6 = {dl_handle = 0x40016670, name = 0x81a5088 "emu10k1", type = SND_PCM_TYPE_HW, stream = SND_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE,
  mode = 0, poll_fd = 9, poll_events = 1, setup = 1, access = SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_INTERLEAVED,
  format = SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16_LE, subformat = SND_PCM_SUBFORMAT_STD, channels = 1, rate = 22050, period_size = 384,
  period_time = 17414, periods = {min = 0, max = 0, openmin = 0, openmax = 0, integer = 0, empty = 0}, tick_time = 1000,
  tstamp_mode = SND_PCM_TSTAMP_NONE, period_step = 1, sleep_min = 0, avail_min = 384, start_threshold = 1,
  stop_threshold = 768, silence_threshold = 0, silence_size = 0, xfer_align = 384, boundary = 1610612736, info = 65795,
  msbits = 16, rate_num = 22050, rate_den = 1, fifo_size = 0, buffer_size = 768, buffer_time = {min = 0, max = 0,
    openmin = 0, openmax = 0, integer = 0, empty = 0}, sample_bits = 16, frame_bits = 16, appl = {master = 0x0,
    ptr = 0x4001b000, fd = 9, offset = -2130706432, link_dst_count = 0, link_dst = 0x0, private_data = 0x0, changed = 0},
  hw = {master = 0x0, ptr = 0x40018008, fd = 9, offset = -2147483640, link_dst_count = 0, link_dst = 0x0,
    private_data = 0x0, changed = 0}, min_align = 1, mmap_rw = 0, donot_close = 0, mmap_channels = 0x0,
  running_areas = 0x0, stopped_areas = 0x0, ops = 0x400cdc20, fast_ops = 0x400cdc60, op_arg = 0x804ffa8,
  fast_op_arg = 0x804ffa8, private_data = 0x81a4a98, async_handlers = {next = 0x80e5304, prev = 0x80e5304}}


Why is running_areas == 0x0 ??

I need direct read access for this capture-stream.

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Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>


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Re: snd_pcm_mmap_begin returns 0 but sets areas to NULL

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:38:34 +0200,
Carlo Wood wrote:
> 
> (gdb) p *pcm
> $6 = {dl_handle = 0x40016670, name = 0x81a5088 "emu10k1", type = SND_PCM_TYPE_HW, stream = SND_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE,
>   mode = 0, poll_fd = 9, poll_events = 1, setup = 1, access = SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_INTERLEAVED,
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

shouldn't be SND_PCM_ACCESS_MMAP_INTERLEAVED ?


Takashi


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Re: snd_pcm_mmap_begin returns 0 but sets areas to NULL

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Carlo Wood wrote:

> Is it ever allowed that:
> 
>     snd_pcm_channel_area_t const* areas;
>     snd_pcm_uframes_t offset;
>     snd_pcm_uframes_t size = period_size;
>     if (size > 0)
>     {
>       snd_pcm_uframes_t frames = size;
>       int err = snd_pcm_mmap_begin(handle, &areas, &offset, &frames);
> 
> returns err == 0, but results in areas == NULL ?
> 
> Or is that a bug in alsa?

Perhaps, you're in a bad state. Did you call hw_params() with a MMAP
access request before?

						Jaroslav

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Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs



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Re: snd_pcm_mmap_begin returns 0 but sets areas to NULL

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Carlo Wood wrote:

>   access = SND_PCM_ACCESS_RW_INTERLEAVED,

Again, access is your problem. You requested read/write access. You have 
to request mmap interleaved one (SND_PCM_ACCESS_MMAP_INTERLEAVED).

						Jaroslav

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