aplay skipping first periods

aplay skipping first periods

[Julien Bramary]

When testing my driver at low sampling rates like 8k,
I noticed that aplay was skipping the very first samples.

This skipping process might also happen at 44.1k but is then too short 
to be noticeable.

Is this a know issue with aplay or a bug with my driver?
I really don't see how my code could be causing this.


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Re: aplay skipping first periods

[Julien Bramary]

Julien Bramary wrote:
> When testing my driver at low sampling rates like 8k,
> I noticed that aplay was skipping the very first samples.
>
> This skipping process might also happen at 44.1k but is then too short 
> to be noticeable.
>
> Is this a know issue with aplay or a bug with my driver?
> I really don't see how my code could be causing this.
>
No it was my code breaking the stuff.
Some obscure transfer request that I was enabling too soon.
I needed to add that in the trigger callback instead of the open callback.

Here is my new trigger, do you think it is short enough? (atomicity in 
mind):

static int snd_card_mdac3560c_pcm_trigger(struct snd_pcm_substream 
*substream, int cmd)
{
    struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime = substream->runtime;
    struct snd_mdac3560c_pcm *dpcm = runtime->private_data;
    int err = 0;

    spin_lock(&dpcm->lock);
    switch (cmd) {
    case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_START:
    case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_RESUME:
        unlock_mdac_irq(); /* enable hardware IRQ */
        at91_ssc_write(AT91_PDC_PTCR, AT91_PDC_TXTEN);    /* enable PDC 
transfer requests */
        at91_ssc_write(AT91_SSC_CR, AT91_SSC_TXEN);    /* enable SSC 
(I2S) data Tx */
        break;
    case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_STOP:
    case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_SUSPEND:
        at91_ssc_write(AT91_SSC_CR, AT91_SSC_TXDIS); /* disable SSC 
(I2S) data Tx */
        at91_ssc_write(AT91_PDC_PTCR, AT91_PDC_TXTDIS);    /* disable 
PDC transfer requests */
        lock_mdac_irq();   /* disable hardware IRQ /*
        break;
    default:
        err = -EINVAL;
        break;
    }
    spin_unlock(&dpcm->lock);
    return 0;
}

Cheers then,

Julien


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