[RFC PATCH 0/6] soc-pcm: Add separate snd_pcm_runtime for BEs

Codrin Ciubotariu
2021-05-19T10:49:56Z

This patchset adds a different snd_pcm_runtime in the BE's substream,
replacing the FE's snd_pcm_runtime. With a different structure, the BE
HW capabilities and constraints will no longer merge with the FE ones.
This allows for error detection if the be_hw_params_fixup() applies HW
parameters not supported by the BE DAIs. Also, it calculates values
needed for mem-to-dev/dev-to-mem DMA transfers, such as buffer size and
period size, if needed.

The first 4 patches are preparatory patches, that just group and export
functions used to allocate and initialize the snd_pcm_runtime. Also, the
functions that set and apply the HW constraints are exported.
The 5th patch does (almost) everything need to create the new snd_pcm_runtime
for BEs, which includes allocation, initializing the HW capabilities,
HW constraints and HW parameters. The BE HW parameters are no longer
copied from the FE. They are recalculated, based on HW capabilities,
constraints and the be_hw_params_fixup() callback.
The 6th and last patch basically adds support for the PCM generic
dmaengine to be used as a platform driver for BE DAI links. It allocates
a buffer, needed by the DMA transfers that do not support dev-to-dev
transfers between FE and BE DAIs.

This is a superset of
https://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2021-March/182630.html
which only handles the BE HW constraints. This patchset aims to be more
complete, defining a a snd_pcm_runtime between each FE and BE and can
be used between any DAI link connection. I am sure I am not handling all
the needed members of snd_pcm_runtime (such as handling
struct snd_pcm_mmap_status *status), but I would like to have your
feedback regarding this idea.

Codrin Ciubotariu (6):
ALSA: core: pcm: Create helpers to allocate/free struct
snd_pcm_runtime
ALSA: pcm: Export constraints initialization functions
ALSA: pcm: Check for substream->ops before substream->ops->mmap
ALSA: pcm: Create function for snd_pcm_runtime initialization
ASoC: soc-pcm: Create new snd_pcm_runtime for BE DAIs
ASoC: dmaengine: Allocate buffer if substream is unmanaged

include/sound/pcm.h | 7 ++
sound/core/pcm.c | 82 ++++++++++-------
sound/core/pcm_native.c | 116 +++++++++++++-----------
sound/soc/soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm.c | 18 ++++
sound/soc/soc-pcm.c | 126 ++++++++++++++++++--------
5 files changed, 229 insertions(+), 120 deletions(-)

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