linux-kernel - Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: snd_dmaengine: add common api for pcm

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Message-ID: <4FEC5DC7.5060600@nvidia.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:06:07 +0530
From:	Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
CC:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	"alsa-devel@...a-project.org" <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"lrg@...com" <lrg@...com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: snd_dmaengine: add common api for
 pcm_mmap

On Thursday 28 June 2012 06:58 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:34:02 +0530,
> Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>> On Thursday 28 June 2012 06:27 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>> At Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:05:53 +0530,
>>> Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>>>> On Thursday 28 June 2012 05:58 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>>>> * PGP Signed by an unknown key
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 02:30:26PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>>>>>> On 06/28/2012 02:18 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>>>>>>> Oh, dear - this means we don't actually have a generic API at all.  Is
>>>>>>> there any effort being made to make this generally available?
>>>>>> Yes there is, and in fact in next/master there is generic
>>>>>> dma_mmap_writecombine. I'm not quite sure how it behaves on non ARM archs
>>>>>> though. But in theory it should fallback to a normal coherent mapping. Marek
>>>>>> did a lot of work on this, I've put him on Cc.
>>>> So can we put the function snd_pcm_lib_writecombine_mmap() in the
>>>> pcm_native.c and only export this api for ARM i.e.  under macro  #ifdef
>>>> CONFIG_ARM so that ARM based SOCs like Tegra/epa3xx/mxs/spear can
>>>> directly use that one?
>>>> Or, wait for this common API until all ARCH support it?
>>> I think it's fine to put it first in ALSA side with some ifdef.
>>> A similar trick is already found for snd_pcm_lib_mmap_iomem.
>>> See include/sound/pcm.h.
>>>
>>> But, actually it's a still question what if an architecture doesn't
>>> support the mmap of writecombine at all.  The proposed patch doesn't
>>> allow you to know whether writecombine-mmap is possible or not on the
>>> running architecture until you really try to call it and fail.
>>> It's a missing piece, IMO.
>> Lars wanted to move the buffer allocation also to common place.
> Which common place?

He wanted to refactor allocation part also at same time and so I guessed 
that it will be in some common place and though about the sound/core.

>> Then how about this?
>> create new file and header for snd-pcm-writecombine-buffer.c/.h and put
>> this in sound/core.
>> Select this file compilation through config SND_PCM_WRITECOMBINE_BUFFER
>> which will be select this config through sound/soc/xxx/Kconfig if they
>> want to use.
>> This will provide three apis: new, free and mmap.
> Way too much hustles than necessary...
Ooh no. :-(  I had taken the idea from snd_dmaengine_pcm driver.
Bit I like to hear simple way which solves the purpose.


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