Hi Morimoto-san,
Thank you for the patch.
On Thursday, 19 October 2017 04:15:13 EEST Kuninori Morimoto wrote:
> From: Hiroyuki Yokoyama <hiroyuki.yokoyama.vx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> SYS/RT/Audio DMAC includes independent data buffers for reading
> and writing. Therefore, the read transfer counter and write transfer
> counter have different values.
> TCR indicates read counter, and TCRB indicates write counter.
> The relationship is like below.
>
> TCR TCRB
> [SOURCE] -> [DMAC] -> [SINK]
>
> In the MEM_TO_DEV direction, what really matters is how much data has
> been written to the device. If the DMA is interrupted between read and
> write, then, the data doesn't end up in the destination, so shouldn't
> be counted. TCRB is thus the register we should use in this cases.
>
> In the DEV_TO_MEM direction, the situation is more complex. Both the
> read and write side are important. What matters from a data consumer
> point of view is how much data has been written to memory.
> On the other hand, if the transfer is interrupted between read and
> write, we'll end up losing data. It can also be important to report.
>
> In the MEM_TO_MEM direction, what matters is of course how much data
> has been written to memory from data consumer point of view.
> Here, because read and write have independent data buffers, it will
> take a while for TCR and TCRB to become equal. Thus we should check
> TCRB in this case, too.
>
> Thus, all cases we should check TCRB instead of TCR.
>
> Without this patch, Sound Capture has noise after PluseAudio support
> (= 07b7acb51d2 ("ASoC: rsnd: update pointer more accurate")), because
> the recorder will use wrong residue counter which indicates transferred
> from sound device, but in reality the data was not yet put to memory
> and recorder will record it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hiroyuki Yokoyama <hiroyuki.yokoyama.vx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [Kuninori: added detail information in log]
> Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2 -> v3
>
> - Code is back to same as v1
> - log has more detail explanation
> - From: is back to Yokoyama-san again
>
> drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c b/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
> index 2b2c7db..50c4950 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/sh/rcar-dmac.c
> @@ -1310,7 +1310,7 @@ static unsigned int rcar_dmac_chan_get_residue(struct
> rcar_dmac_chan *chan, }
>
> /* Add the residue for the current chunk. */
> - residue += rcar_dmac_chan_read(chan, RCAR_DMATCR) << desc->xfer_shift;
> + residue += rcar_dmac_chan_read(chan, RCAR_DMATCRB) << desc->xfer_shift;
>
> return residue;
> }
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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