Re: Regression found (Stop-marking-clocks-as-CLK_IS_CRITICAL)

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 1/17/19 8:30 PM, Mogens Jensen wrote:
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Thursday, January 17, 2019 12:05 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 17-01-19 10:12, Dean Wallace wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Hans, Mogens,
>>> On 17-01-19, Mogens Jensen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Kernel is compiled with SND_SOC_INTEL_CHT_BSW_MAX98090_TI_MACH and the quirk seems to have fixed the problem caused by commit 648e921888ad ("clk: x86: Stop marking clocks as CLK_IS_CRITICAL"), as sound is now working if running "speaker-test" on my system which is clean ALSA.
>>
>> Note being "clean ALSA" is really not a good thing now a days,
>> for lots of things we depend on pulseaudio (like setting
>> up UCM mixer profiles).
>>
> I'm using UCM mixer profile from:
> 
> https://github.com/plbossart/UCM/tree/master/chtmax98090
> 
> This is enabled with:
> 
> alsaucm -c chtmax98090 set _verb HiFi set _enadev Speakers
> 
>>>> Unfortunately, SND_SOC_INTEL_CHT_BSW_MAX98090_TI_MACH driver is unusable on Clapper Chromebooks as audio played from everything but "speaker-test" as video players or web browsers is extremly low and sounds like played at 10x speed. At the same time kernel log is spammed with messages like this:
>>>> max98090 i2c-193C9890:00: PLL unlocked
>>>> intel_sst_acpi 80860F28:00: FW Version 01.0c.00.01
>>>> writing to lpe: 00000000: 01 01 01 01 00 00 08 00 ff ff ff ff 55 00 00 00 ............U...
>>>> writing to lpe: 00000000: 01 01 01 01 00 00 1a 00 ff ff ff ff 75 00 12 00 ............u...
>>>> This is probably not related to the problem discussed in this thread, but the result is that I have to use the legacy driver SND_SOC_INTEL_BYT_MAX98090_MACH and therefore still has to revert commit 648e921888ad for sound to work.
>>>> Is it possible to create a fix for SND_SOC_INTEL_BYT_MAX98090_MACH on kernel 4.19? Kernel 4.19 is a long term release so it would be very nice to have fix for this version upstream.
>>>
>>> I have been reverting "clk: x86: Stop marking clocks as CLK_IS_CRITICAL"
>>> and the patch that initially added the quirk for swanky because of sound
>>> instability issues as you described. I'm compiling vanilla Archlinux
>>> kernel with SND_SOC_INTEL_CHT_BSW_MAX98090_TI_MACH, using pulseaudio,
>>> and have sound in all my apps.
>>> Baytrail sound has always been a little touchy, especially using headset
>>> with mic, but since the clk patch breaking sound and the quirk patch to
>>> fix it, there is a lot more instability. Just running pavucontrol, or
>>> plugging in headset sets it off. It's a head scratcher.
>>
>> Mogens, Dean, can you please try the SND_SOC_INTEL_CHT_BSW_MAX98090_TI_MACH
>> driver, without reverting any patches, with the attached patch on top and
>> see if that helps?
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>>
>> Hans
> 
> I have applied the patch to kernel 4.19.15 and unfortunately this has not solved the problems.
> 
> Audio generated from "speaker-test" is normal, but from everything else is very low and played at 10x speed. However, I'm not seeing the "max98090 i2c-193C9890:00: PLL unlocked" message in kernel log anymore, but it's still spammed with "writing to lpe: ...".

Hmm, I've a feeling the problem is your using alsa directly, do you have
dmix enabled ? You probably need dmix since the SST sound support
only supports 48KHz AFAIK.

Can you perhaps give things a try with pulseaudio ?

Regards,

Hans