Excerpts from Takashi Iwai's message of June 14, 2020 5:54 am: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 18:25:22 +0200, > Alex Xu (Hello71) wrote: >> >> Excerpts from Takashi Iwai's message of June 11, 2020 1:11 pm: >> > Thanks, so something still missing in the mmap handling, I guess. >> > >> > I've worked on two different branches for potential fixes of your >> > problems. Could you test topic/dma-fix and topic/dma-fix2 branches? >> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git >> > Just pull one of them onto Linus' git HEAD. >> > >> > I guess we'll go with David's new patch, but still it's interesting >> > whether my changes do anything good actually. >> > >> > >> > Takashi >> > >> >> On torvalds 623f6dc593, topic/dma-fix causes sound to be output as >> alternating half-second bursts of noise and a few seconds of silence. >> topic/dma-fix2 appears to work properly. > > OK, thanks for the feedback! Just to make sure, you're using > PulseAudio, right? > If so, it was still something wrong about mmap, and the secondary > method (the fallback to the continuous page) looks like a safer > approach in the end. > > I suppose that David's fix will be merged sooner or later. Meanwhile > I'll work on the change in the sound driver side to make things a bit > more robust. They don't conflict and both good applicable. > > > thanks, > > Takashi > Ah, no, I think that wasn't clear. I use ALSA directly with mostly default configuration, except an asym sets separate default playback and record devices. asound.conf: defaults.pcm.card 1 defaults.ctl.card 1 pcm.!default { type asym playback.pcm { type plug slave.pcm "dmix" } capture.pcm { type plug slave.pcm { type dsnoop ipc_key 6793 slave.pcm "hw:U0x46d0x81d" } } } I think I wasn't able to set defaults.pcm.dmix.card and defaults.pcm.dsnoop.card for some reason, not sure why. I can try that, but I don't think it will affect this mmap issue. Thanks, Alex.