[PATCH 4.19 064/118] ALSA: pcm: Call snd_pcm_unlink() conditionally at closing

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-12-11T15:56:32Z

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

commit b51abed8355e5556886623b2772fa6b7598d2282 upstream.

Currently the PCM core calls snd_pcm_unlink() always unconditionally
at closing a stream. However, since snd_pcm_unlink() invokes the
global rwsem down, the lock can be easily contended. More badly, when
a thread runs in a high priority RT-FIFO, it may stall at spinning.

Basically the call of snd_pcm_unlink() is required only for the linked
streams that are already rare occasion. For normal use cases, this
code path is fairly superfluous.

As an optimization (and also as a workaround for the RT problem
above in normal situations without linked streams), this patch adds a
check before calling snd_pcm_unlink() and calls it only when needed.

Reported-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
sound/core/pcm_native.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
@@ -2370,7 +2370,8 @@ int snd_pcm_hw_constraints_complete(stru

static void pcm_release_private(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
{
- snd_pcm_unlink(substream);
+ if (snd_pcm_stream_linked(substream))
+ snd_pcm_unlink(substream);
}

void snd_pcm_release_substream(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)