On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Manu Abraham wrote: > >> Ok, so period should be the interval at which an IRQ is expected. >> ie, if i set a buffer size for 40mS, the period should be 40, I guess. >> >> That said, what should be a recommended value for period ? If hardware >> needs to generate an IRQ at the end of each period ? > > It's good to allow the lowledevel driver to pass all possible period sizes > to the user space. The application does decision how many wakeups expects. Ok, I adapted it to look thus, static struct snd_pcm_hardware saa7231_capture_info = { .info = (SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP | SNDRV_PCM_INFO_INTERLEAVED | SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BLOCK_TRANSFER | SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP_VALID), .formats = (SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S16_LE | SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S16_BE | SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_S8 | SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_U8 | SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_U16_LE | SNDRV_PCM_FMTBIT_U16_BE), .rates = SNDRV_PCM_RATE_32000, .rate_min = 32000, .rate_max = 48000, .channels_min = 2, .channels_max = 2, .buffer_bytes_max = 512 * 4096, #if 0 .period_bytes_min = 192, .period_bytes_max = 1536, .periods_min = 2, .periods_max = 1024, #endif .period_bytes_min = 1920, /* 10mS @ 48khz */ .period_bytes_max = 768000, /* 4S @ 48kHz */ .periods_min = 10, /* 10mS */ .periods_max = 4000000, /* 4S */ }; /* * 10mS Buffer lengths * @48kHz 1920 bytes * @44.1kHz 1764 bytes * @32kHz 1280 bytes * * * period min = 10mS @48k: 1920 bytes @44.1k: 1764 bytes @32k: 1280 bytes * period max = 1S @48k:192000 bytes @44.1k:176400 bytes @32k:128000 bytes * period = 4S @48k:768000 bytes @44.1k:705600 bytes @32k:512000 bytes */ static int saa7231_capture_open(struct snd_pcm_substream *pcm) { struct saa7231_audio *audio = snd_pcm_substream_chip(pcm); struct snd_pcm_runtime *rt = pcm->runtime; struct saa7231_dev *saa7231 = audio->saa7231; int err; dprintk(SAA7231_DEBUG, 1, "()"); rt->hw = saa7231_capture_info; snd_pcm_hw_constraint_list(rt, 0, SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_RATE, &hw_constraint_rates); err = snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer(rt, SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_PERIODS); if (err < 0) { dprintk(SAA7231_ERROR, 1, "snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer() failed. ret=%d", err); return err; } err = snd_pcm_hw_constraint_minmax(rt, SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_PERIOD_SIZE, 10, 4000000); if (err < 0) { dprintk(SAA7231_ERROR, 1, "snd_pcm_hw_constraint_minmax() failed. ret=%d", err); return err; } err = snd_pcm_hw_constraint_minmax(rt, SNDRV_PCM_HW_PARAM_PERIOD_BYTES, 1920, 768000); if (err < 0) { dprintk(SAA7231_ERROR, 1, "snd_pcm_hw_constraint_minmax() failed. ret=%d", err); return err; } return 0; } /* * saa7231_hw_params() * * This callback is called when the hardware parameter (hw_params) is setup * by the application, ie., once when the buffer size, the period size, * the format etc are defined for the PCM substream. */ static int saa7231_hw_params(struct snd_pcm_substream *pcm, struct snd_pcm_hw_params *params) { struct saa7231_audio *audio = snd_pcm_substream_chip(pcm); struct saa7231_dev *saa7231 = audio->saa7231; struct snd_pcm_runtime *rt = pcm->runtime; struct saa7231_dmabuf *buffer; struct saa7231_stream *stream; struct saa7231_dmabuf *dmabuf; struct page **ptable; void *mem; void *dma_area; int i, j, pages, bytes, periods, bufsiz, pt_size; dprintk(SAA7231_DEBUG, 1, "DEBUG: ()"); periods = params_periods(params); bytes = params_period_bytes(params); bufsiz = periods * bytes; dprintk(SAA7231_DEBUG, 1, "bufsiz=%d periods=%d bytes=%d", bufsiz, periods, bytes); pages = bufsiz / PAGE_SIZE; /* enable stream */ /* initializing 8 buffer with "pages" pages each .. */ stream = saa7231_stream_init(saa7231, AUDIO_CAPTURE, ADAPTER_INT, 0, pages); if (!stream) { dprintk(SAA7231_ERROR, 1, "ERROR: Registering stream"); return -ENOMEM; } audio->stream = stream; buffer = stream->dmabuf; saa7231_add_irqevent(saa7231, 43, SAA7231_EDGE_RISING, saa7231_audio_evhandler, "AS2D_AVIS"); dprintk(SAA7231_DEBUG, 1, "Mapping %d buffers with %d pages each", XS2D_BUFFERS, pages); /* * For a single DMA buffer: * each page takes a u64 size in a page table * number of entries a single page can hold = PAGE_SIZE / entry size * ie entries.max = PAGE_SIZE / 8 => 4096/8 = 512 * Now, we have entries.req = 7 ("pages") per buffer * * For all in XS2D_BUFFERS: * page table should be large enough to hold all the pages in each DMA buffer * total number of pages = pages * XS2D_BUFFERS * max buffers that we need to consider = 512 * 8, this needs 8 pages for a page table * * On a general note, we can calculate pages for page table as * page_table_size = total_pages / 512, with a minimum of a single page */ #define MAX_ENTRIES_PER_PAGE (PAGE_SIZE / 8) pt_size = (pages * XS2D_BUFFERS) / MAX_ENTRIES_PER_PAGE; /* minimum 1 page required for the table */ if (pt_size < 1) pt_size = 1; dprintk(SAA7231_DEBUG, 1, "Page Table array size=%d", pt_size); ptable = kzalloc((sizeof (struct page) * pt_size), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ptable) { dprintk(SAA7231_ERROR, 1, "ERROR: No memory to allocate virtual map"); return -ENOMEM; } audio->ptable = ptable; for (i = 0; i < XS2D_BUFFERS; i ++) { dmabuf = &buffer[i]; mem = dmabuf->vmalloc; for (j = 0; j < pages; j++) ptable[j] = virt_to_page(mem); } #if 0 dma_area = vmap(ptable, (pages * XS2D_BUFFERS), VM_MAP, PAGE_KERNEL); rt->dma_area = dma_area; rt->dma_bytes = XS2D_BUFFERS * pages * SAA7231_PAGE_SIZE; rt->dma_addr = 0; #endif return 0; } also after vmap(), crazy thing was that uncommenting the above #if 0'd block, ie with vmap() it would just crash the whole system. Best Regards, Manu _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel