lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date:   Tue, 1 Dec 2020 17:51:35 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu <srivasam@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     agross@...nel.org, bjorn.andersson@...aro.org, lgirdwood@...il.com,
        robh+dt@...nel.org, plai@...eaurora.org, bgoswami@...eaurora.org,
        perex@...ex.cz, tiwai@...e.com, srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org,
        rohitkr@...eaurora.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        V Sujith Kumar Reddy <vsujithk@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Partially revert ASoC: qcom: Fix enabling BCLK
 and LRCLK in LPAIF invalid state

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 11:01:21PM +0530, Srinivasa Rao Mandadapu wrote:
> On 11/30/2020 6:16 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Part of this commit message says that the problem was making the registers
> > non-volatile but both the change and the rest of the commit message say
> > that the issue was that the registers were made volatile.  I'm also
> > still unclear as to what the issue is either way - how does reading the
> > state of the registers from the hardware instead of the cache affect
> > things?

> Initial problem was, during playback if device suspended, I2S and DMA
> control registers

> are getting reset and unable to recover playback after resume.

> As these registers were non volatile registers, driver is not getting actual
> register value

> and unable to report error state to application. Due to this application

> keeps on polling for HW current pointer state and not exited from PCM
> running state.

> Later from review comments by Srinivas kandagatla, I got to know
> 
> about regcache sync APIs, which can be used  to sync cache after resume and
> 
> HW registers can be updated with  original values. With that playback can be
> continued.
> 
> So is the reason, I am reverting partial changes in the commit b1824968221c.

I don't understand why a fix for the register cache not being in sync
with the hardware doesn't involve syncing the register cache with the
hardware.

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (489 bytes)

Powered by blists - more mailing lists