ALSA: Enable PCM hw_ptr_jiffies check only in xrun_debug mode

The PCM hw_ptr jiffies check results sometimes in problems when a
hardware doesn't give smooth hw_ptr updates.  So far, au88x0 and some
other drivers appear not working due to this strict check.
However, this check is a nice debug tool, and the capability should be
still kept.

Hence, we disable this check now as default unless the user enables it
by setting the xrun_debug mode to the specific stream via a proc file.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/Procfile.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/Procfile.txt
index bba2dbb79d81c10d71bbc5b0879f6d3745d1543d..cfac20cf9e33fa150a6cf69f4e6d624e8116caa9 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/Procfile.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/Procfile.txt
@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ card*/pcm*/xrun_debug
        When this value is greater than 1, the driver will show the
        stack trace additionally.  This may help the debugging.
 
+       Since 2.6.30, this option also enables the hwptr check using
+       jiffies.  This detects spontaneous invalid pointer callback
+       values, but can be lead to too much corrections for a (mostly
+       buggy) hardware that doesn't give smooth pointer updates.
+
 card*/pcm*/sub*/info
        The general information of this PCM sub-stream.
 

diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
index 3eea98a4e65ac4e5816963e493945222e92ace4d..d659995ac3ac7be2f20e488c71b7b3fe405a879e 100644 (file)
--- a/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm_lib.c
@@ -249,6 +249,11 @@ static int snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr_interrupt(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
                        new_hw_ptr = hw_base + pos;
                }
        }
+
+       /* Do jiffies check only in xrun_debug mode */
+       if (!xrun_debug(substream))
+               goto no_jiffies_check;
+
        /* Skip the jiffies check for hardwares with BATCH flag.
         * Such hardware usually just increases the position at each IRQ,
         * thus it can't give any strange position.
@@ -336,7 +341,9 @@ int snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
                        hw_base = 0;
                new_hw_ptr = hw_base + pos;
        }
-       if (((delta * HZ) / runtime->rate) > jdelta + HZ/100) {
+       /* Do jiffies check only in xrun_debug mode */
+       if (xrun_debug(substream) &&
+           ((delta * HZ) / runtime->rate) > jdelta + HZ/100) {
                hw_ptr_error(substream,
                             "hw_ptr skipping! "
                             "(pos=%ld, delta=%ld, period=%ld, jdelta=%lu/%lu)\n",