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.
next prev 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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