linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] ASoC: AMD: Make ACP->SYSMEM DMA non circular

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Date:   Thu, 2 Aug 2018 10:56:17 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Akshu Agrawal <akshu.agrawal@....com>
Cc:     djkurtz@...omium.org, Alexander.Deucher@....com,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        "Mukunda, Vijendar" <Vijendar.Mukunda@....com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        "moderated list:SOUND - SOC LAYER / DYNAMIC AUDIO POWER MANAGEM..." 
        <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ASoC: AMD: Make ACP->SYSMEM DMA non circular

On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 12:11:54PM +0530, Akshu Agrawal wrote:
> In capture case we don't want ACP to SYSMEM dma
> to be circular. This is because if an in place DSP
> filter is applied to captured output then circular DMA
> can overwrite the filter value with stale data.

Isn't that just a problem with userspace not giving itself enough buffer
to get the in place processing done before we loop round again.  This
will simply change the type of error, it won't actually fix anything
AFAICT but perhaps I'm missing something.

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