From 78ac07b0d2b09b1ccb7a41a2e25f71d60b652920 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Mohr Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:09:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: azt3328: period bug fix (for PA), add missing ACK on stop timer . Fix PulseAudio "ALSA driver bug" issue (if we have two alternated areas within a 64k DMA buffer, then max period size should obviously be 32k only). Back references: http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/AlsaIssues http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GlitchFreeAudio . In stop timer function, need to supply ACK in the timer control byte. . Minor log output correction When I did my first PA testing recently, the period size bug resulted in quite precisely observeable half-period-based playback distortion. PA-based operation is quite a bit more underrun-prone (despite its zero-copy optimizations etc.) than raw ALSA with this rather spartan sound hardware implementation on my puny Athlon. Note that even with this patch, azt3328 still doesn't work for both cases yet, PA tsched=0 and tsched (on tsched=0 it will playback tiny fragments of periods, leading to tiny stuttering sounds with some pauses in between, whereas with timer-scheduled operation playback works fine - minus some quite increased underrun trouble on PA vs. ALSA, that is). Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai --- sound/pci/azt3328.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/pci/azt3328.c b/sound/pci/azt3328.c index 4679ed83a43b..2f3cacbd5528 100644 --- a/sound/pci/azt3328.c +++ b/sound/pci/azt3328.c @@ -1129,10 +1129,11 @@ snd_azf3328_codec_setdmaa(struct snd_azf3328 *chip, count_areas = size/2; addr_area2 = addr+count_areas; - count_areas--; /* max. index */ snd_azf3328_dbgcodec("setdma: buffers %08lx[%u] / %08lx[%u]\n", addr, count_areas, addr_area2, count_areas); + count_areas--; /* max. index */ + /* build combined I/O buffer length word */ lengths = (count_areas << 16) | (count_areas); spin_lock_irqsave(&chip->reg_lock, flags); @@ -1740,11 +1741,15 @@ static const struct snd_pcm_hardware snd_azf3328_hardware = .rate_max = AZF_FREQ_66200, .channels_min = 1, .channels_max = 2, - .buffer_bytes_max = 65536, - .period_bytes_min = 64, - .period_bytes_max = 65536, - .periods_min = 1, - .periods_max = 1024, + .buffer_bytes_max = (64*1024), + .period_bytes_min = 1024, + .period_bytes_max = (32*1024), + /* We simply have two DMA areas (instead of a list of descriptors + such as other cards); I believe that this is a fixed hardware + attribute and there isn't much driver magic to be done to expand it. + Thus indicate that we have at least and at most 2 periods. */ + .periods_min = 2, + .periods_max = 2, /* FIXME: maybe that card actually has a FIFO? * Hmm, it seems newer revisions do have one, but we still don't know * its size... */ @@ -1980,8 +1985,13 @@ snd_azf3328_timer_stop(struct snd_timer *timer) chip = snd_timer_chip(timer); spin_lock_irqsave(&chip->reg_lock, flags); /* disable timer countdown and interrupt */ - /* FIXME: should we write TIMER_IRQ_ACK here? */ - snd_azf3328_ctrl_outb(chip, IDX_IO_TIMER_VALUE + 3, 0); + /* Hmm, should we write TIMER_IRQ_ACK here? + YES indeed, otherwise a rogue timer operation - which prompts + ALSA(?) to call repeated stop() in vain, but NOT start() - + will never end (value 0x03 is kept shown in control byte). + Simply manually poking 0x04 _once_ immediately successfully stops + the hardware/ALSA interrupt activity. */ + snd_azf3328_ctrl_outb(chip, IDX_IO_TIMER_VALUE + 3, 0x04); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chip->reg_lock, flags); snd_azf3328_dbgcallleave(); return 0;