Re: sound skipping regression introduced in 2.6.30-rc8

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:48:43 +0200,
I wrote:
> 
> At Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:25:47 -0700 (PDT),
> David Miller wrote:
> > 
> > From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> > Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:39:50 +0200
> > 
> > > If that patch also doesn't work, we need to track the position update
> > > sequence in more details.
> > > The patch below will dump the each position update (CAUTION: it can be
> > > long logs!).  Please apply it instead of the previous one, run with
> > > xrun_debug=5 on 2.6.31 (or xrun_debug=1 on 2.6.30), and give the
> > > outputs around a skip occurs.
> > 
> > The patch doesn't work.
> > 
> > I put up a debugging log at:
> > 
> > 	http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/asound.log
> > 
> > there is a "PCM: hw_ptr skipping! ..." message near the end.
> 
> Thanks!  I see the problem now.  It's a race in the update of the
> current buffer position.  The counter was reset to the full fragment
> size, but its index still points the previous position.  So, the
> driver was confused and put the position back.
> 
> The below is a revised patch.  It has an additional sanity check.
> Please give it a try.

Damn, that was buggy again.  The fixed version is below.


Takashi

---
diff --git a/sound/pci/intel8x0.c b/sound/pci/intel8x0.c
index 173bebf..8aa5687 100644
--- a/sound/pci/intel8x0.c
+++ b/sound/pci/intel8x0.c
@@ -356,8 +356,6 @@ struct ichdev {
         unsigned int position;
 	unsigned int pos_shift;
 	unsigned int last_pos;
-	unsigned long last_pos_jiffies;
-	unsigned int jiffy_to_bytes;
         int frags;
         int lvi;
         int lvi_frag;
@@ -844,7 +842,6 @@ static int snd_intel8x0_pcm_trigger(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, int cmd
 	case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_PAUSE_RELEASE:
 		val = ICH_IOCE | ICH_STARTBM;
 		ichdev->last_pos = ichdev->position;
-		ichdev->last_pos_jiffies = jiffies;
 		break;
 	case SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_SUSPEND:
 		ichdev->suspended = 1;
@@ -1048,7 +1045,6 @@ static int snd_intel8x0_pcm_prepare(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
 			ichdev->pos_shift = (runtime->sample_bits > 16) ? 2 : 1;
 	}
 	snd_intel8x0_setup_periods(chip, ichdev);
-	ichdev->jiffy_to_bytes = (runtime->rate * 4 * ichdev->pos_shift) / HZ;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1073,19 +1069,23 @@ static snd_pcm_uframes_t snd_intel8x0_pcm_pointer(struct snd_pcm_substream *subs
 		    ptr1 == igetword(chip, ichdev->reg_offset + ichdev->roff_picb))
 			break;
 	} while (timeout--);
+	ptr = ichdev->last_pos;
 	if (ptr1 != 0) {
 		ptr1 <<= ichdev->pos_shift;
 		ptr = ichdev->fragsize1 - ptr1;
 		ptr += position;
-		ichdev->last_pos = ptr;
-		ichdev->last_pos_jiffies = jiffies;
-	} else {
-		ptr1 = jiffies - ichdev->last_pos_jiffies;
-		if (ptr1)
-			ptr1 -= 1;
-		ptr = ichdev->last_pos + ptr1 * ichdev->jiffy_to_bytes;
-		ptr %= ichdev->size;
+		if (ptr < ichdev->last_pos) {
+			unsigned int pos_base, last_base;
+			pos_base = position / ichdev->fragsize1;
+			last_base = ichdev->last_pos / ichdev->fragsize1;
+			/* another sanity check; ptr1 can go back to full
+			 * before the base position is updated
+			 */
+			if (pos_base == last_base)
+				ptr = ichdev->last_pos;
+		}
 	}
+	ichdev->last_pos = ptr;
 	spin_unlock(&chip->reg_lock);
 	if (ptr >= ichdev->size)
 		return 0;