[alsa-devel] [RESEND PATCH v2 1/1] ASoC: dwc: fix dma stop transferring issue

[yitian.bu@tangramtek.com (yitian)]

Hi Mark:

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> Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [RESEND PATCH v2 1/1] ASoC: dwc: fix dma stop
> transferring issue
> 
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> Mark
> > Brown
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> > Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 1/1] ASoC: dwc: fix dma stop transferring
> > issue
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:43:17PM +0800, yitian wrote:
> > > Designware I2S uses tx empty and rx available signals as the DMA
> > > handshaking signals. during music playing, if XRUN occurs,
> > > i2s_stop() function will be executed and both tx and rx irq are
> > > masked, when music continues to be played, i2s_start() is executed
> > > but both tx and rx irq are not unmasked which cause I2S stop
> > > sending DMA handshaking signal to DMA controller, and it finally
> > > causes music playing will be stopped once XRUN occurs for the first
> > > time.
> >
> > I'm a bit concerned about how this code ever worked given the above
> > description - is there some race condition which allows things to work
> > if we're lucky?
> 
> Hi Mark:
> 
> Thanks for your comments.
> I think maybe two reasons:
> 1. designware I2S IP in my chipset(new design) is using tx empty and rx
> available signal as the DMA handshaking signal, but it may be not true
> for all chipsets. If I2S has separate signal as DMA handshaking signal,
mask
> irq should not impact DMA transfer. But Synopsys's engineer recommend
> us to
> use
> tx and rx irq signal as the DMA handshaking signal, meanwhile we cannot
> find
> separate DMA handshaking signal from designware's IP spec, that's why
> tx/rx
> irq
> will impact DMA transfer.
> 
> 2. I am using a FPGA for test, the cpu frequency of it is only 26MHz, that
> means
> XRUN is very easy to happen on my board. But I guess most of the
> developers
> are using real chipset which can have at least 600MHz frequency so XRUN
> is
> not easy to be reproduced. As my test, No XUN, no this bug...

Do I need to provide anything else for this patch? Thanks.