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From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: Mark Hills <mark@xwax.org>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] echoaudio: Address bugs in the interrupt handling
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:46:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200616214603.71cfe49b@wc1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200616131743.4793-3-mark@xwax.org>

On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 14:17:43 +0100
Mark Hills <mark@xwax.org> wrote:

> Distorted audio appears occasionally, affecting either playback
> or capture and requiring the affected substream to be closed by
> all applications and re-opened.

Yes, it also happens here very rarely (one time every some months) and I failed to reproduce the problem.


> The best way I have found to reproduce the bug is to use dmix in
> combination with Chromium, which opens the audio device multiple
> times in threads. Anecdotally, the problems appear to have increased
> with faster CPUs.
> 
> Since applying this patch I have not had problems, where previously
> they would occur several times a day.
> 
> This patch addresses the following issues:
> 
> * Check for progress using the counter from the hardware, not after
>   it has been truncated to the buffer.
> 
>   There appears to be a possible bug if a whole ringbuffer advances
>   between interrupts, it goes unnoticed.

In that case the stream must be restarted anyway due to xrun.


> * Remove chip->last_period:
> 
>   It's trivial to derive from pipe->last_counter, and inside pipe
>   is where it more logically belongs. This has less scope for bugs
>   as it is not wrapped to the buffer length.

Ok.


> * Remove the accessing of pipe->dma_counter twice in the interrupt
>   handler:

Why twice?


> +static int snd_echo_poll_substream(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
> [...]
>  static irqreturn_t snd_echo_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
> [...]

Looks fine to me.


-- 
Giuliano.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-16 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-16 13:13 echoaudio: Fix some long standing bugs Mark Hills
2020-06-16 13:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] echoaudio: Race conditions around "opencount" Mark Hills
2020-06-16 13:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] echoaudio: Prevent races in calls to set_audio_format() Mark Hills
2020-06-16 13:24   ` Takashi Iwai
2020-06-16 13:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] echoaudio: Address bugs in the interrupt handling Mark Hills
2020-06-16 13:35   ` Takashi Iwai
2020-06-16 14:01     ` Mark Hills
2020-06-16 14:18       ` Takashi Iwai
2020-06-17 10:51         ` Mark Hills
2020-06-18  8:17           ` Takashi Iwai
2020-06-18 11:07             ` Mark Hills
2020-06-18 11:21               ` Takashi Iwai
2020-06-18 12:29                 ` Mark Hills
2020-06-18 13:22                   ` Mark Hills
2020-06-16 19:46   ` Giuliano Pochini [this message]
2020-06-17 10:57     ` Mark Hills
2020-06-16 22:01   ` Giuliano Pochini
2020-06-17 11:14     ` Mark Hills
2020-06-19 19:56       ` Giuliano Pochini
2020-06-19 21:21         ` Mark Hills
2020-06-28 22:02           ` Giuliano Pochini
2020-07-01 12:25             ` Mark Hills
2020-07-01 14:51               ` Giuliano Pochini
2020-07-01 12:25 ` echoaudio: Fix some long standing bugs Mark Hills
2020-07-01 12:27   ` [PATCH 1/4] echoaudio: Race conditions around "opencount" Mark Hills
2020-07-01 16:37     ` kernel test robot
2020-07-01 17:32     ` kernel test robot
2020-07-02  9:53       ` Mark Hills
2020-07-07  8:28         ` Takashi Iwai
2020-07-08 10:16           ` Mark Hills
2020-07-08 10:18             ` [PATCH 1/5] echoaudio: Remove redundant check Mark Hills
2020-07-09 11:00               ` Takashi Iwai
2020-07-08 10:18             ` [PATCH 2/5] echoaudio: Race conditions around "opencount" Mark Hills
2020-07-09 11:00               ` Takashi Iwai
2020-07-08 10:18             ` [PATCH 3/5] echoaudio: Prevent races in calls to set_audio_format() Mark Hills
2020-07-09 11:00               ` Takashi Iwai
2020-07-08 10:18             ` [PATCH 4/5] echoaudio: Prevent some noise on unloading the module Mark Hills
2020-07-09 11:00               ` Takashi Iwai
2020-07-08 10:18             ` [PATCH 5/5] echoaudio: Address bugs in the interrupt handling Mark Hills
2020-07-09 11:01               ` Takashi Iwai
2020-07-01 12:27   ` [PATCH 2/4] echoaudio: Prevent races in calls to set_audio_format() Mark Hills
2020-07-01 12:27   ` [PATCH 3/4] echoaudio: Prevent some noise on unloading the module Mark Hills
2020-07-01 12:27   ` [PATCH 4/4] echoaudio: Address bugs in the interrupt handling Mark Hills

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