Re: [PATCH 4/4] ASoC: amd: acp: Improve support for speaker power events

Marian Postevca
2023-03-22T21:01:57Z

Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 10:35:19PM +0200, Marian Postevca wrote:
>> In order to reduce the audible pops when speaker or headphones
>> are activated or disabled we need to delay the switching of the
>> GPIOs.
>
> The usual mechanism for doing this is with the standard kernel delay
> functions. Why not use them in the DAPM event?
>

I just followed the logic from sof_es8336.c, the reason for the change
there is given in commit log of 89cdb224f2abe37ec:

commit 89cdb224f2abe37ec4ac21ba0d9ddeb5a6a9cf68
Author: Zhu Ning <zhuning0077@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Oct 28 10:04:56 2022 +0800

ASoC: sof_es8336: reduce pop noise on speaker

The Speaker GPIO needs to be turned on slightly behind the codec turned on.
It also need to be turned off slightly before the codec turned down.
Current code uses delay in DAPM_EVENT to do it but the mdelay delays the
DAPM itself and thus has no effect. A delayed_work is added to turn on the
speaker.
The Speaker is turned off in .trigger since trigger is called slightly
before the DAPM events.

>> We need to also disable/enable the speaker/headphones GPIOs when
>> the audio stream is stopped/started. To avoid race conditions
>> between the speaker power event callback and the trigger callback
>> we use a ring buffer to save the events that we need to process
>> in the delayed work callback.
>
> Why is this required? DAPM is integrated with stream start and stop,
> and there's a mute callback to mask any noise played back from the SoC
> while it stops and starts without requiring all this complexity. If
> there is any audible noise then why would it only affect the speaker?
>

Same reason as above, just followed the logic in sof_es8336.c

>> +static int acp3x_es83xx_trigger(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, int cmd)
>> +{
>> + struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime *rtd = asoc_substream_to_rtd(substream);
>> + struct snd_soc_card *card = rtd->card;
>> + struct acp3x_es83xx_private *priv = get_mach_priv(card);
>> +
>> + switch (cmd) {
>> + case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_START:
>> + case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_PAUSE_RELEASE:
>> + case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_RESUME:
>> + if (substream->stream == 0) {
>> + dev_dbg(priv->codec_dev, "trigger start/release/resume, activating GPIOs\n");
>> + mutex_lock(&priv->rb_lock);
>
> Triggers run in atomic context, you can't use mutexes in atomic context.
> lockdep should tell you this.

Sorry, I didn't run lockdep before sending the patches, I will rework
the locking code.