Re: [PATCH] ALSA: ice1724: Fix blocking open for independent surround PCMs

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Mon, 18 May 2026 16:32:05 +0200,
Cássio Gabriel wrote:
> 
> The independent surround playback open path rejects a substream when the
> matching PDMA channel is reserved by the multi-channel PDMA0 stream. It
> currently returns -EBUSY for that case, although the driver has carried a
> FIXME noting that blocking mode is not handled properly.
> 
> ALSA PCM open waits and retries only when the low-level open callback
> returns -EAGAIN. Returning -EBUSY therefore makes blocking opens fail
> immediately, the same as nonblocking opens.
> 
> Return -EAGAIN for the temporary PDMA0 reservation conflict. The PCM core
> continues to report -EBUSY for O_NONBLOCK callers, while blocking callers
> sleep and retry.
> 
> Also wake the independent surround PCM wait queue when hw_free releases a
> PDMA reservation. The reservation can be released by the pro PCM, while
> waiters are sleeping on the independent surround PCM, so waking the current
> substream PCM is not sufficient for this cross-PCM reservation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cássio Gabriel <cassiogabrielcontato@gmail.com>

Applied to for-next branch now.  Thanks.


Takashi