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| author | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2018-05-27 13:01:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2018-05-29 10:01:54 +0200 |
| commit | f274baa49be67dd8a9f318cd95da6ef9f565d06b (patch) | |
| tree | a8d94fa80a0630b108c93a37ab5433081112e182 /sound/usb/card.c | |
| parent | f91f1806530d065b90718598fbe2fad426732418 (diff) | |
ALSA: usb-audio: Allow non-vmalloc buffer for PCM buffers
Currently, USB-audio driver allocates the PCM buffer via vmalloc(), as
this serves merely as an intermediate buffer that is copied to each
URB transfer buffer. This works well in general on x86, but on some
archs this may result in cache coherency issues when mmap is used.
OTOH, it works also on such arch unless mmap is used.
This patch is a step for mitigating the inconvenience; a new module
option "use_vmalloc" is provided so that user can choose to allocate
the DMA coherent buffer instead of the existing vmalloc buffer.
The drawback is that it'd be the standard dma_alloc_coherent() calls
and the system would require contiguous pages on non-x86 archs.
Note that it's a global option and not dynamically switchable since
the buffer is pre-allocated at the probe time. In theory, it's
possible to be switchable, but it'd be trickier and racier.
As default use_vmalloc option is set to true, so that the old behavior
is kept. For allowing the coherent mmap on ARM or MIPS, pass
use_vmalloc=0 option explicitly.
Reported-and-tested-by: Daniel Danzberger <daniel@dd-wrt.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'sound/usb/card.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | sound/usb/card.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sound/usb/card.c b/sound/usb/card.c index c80224807e8f..a1ed798a1c6b 100644 --- a/sound/usb/card.c +++ b/sound/usb/card.c @@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ static bool ignore_ctl_error; static bool autoclock = true; static char *quirk_alias[SNDRV_CARDS]; +bool snd_usb_use_vmalloc = true; + module_param_array(index, int, NULL, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(index, "Index value for the USB audio adapter."); module_param_array(id, charp, NULL, 0444); @@ -105,6 +107,8 @@ module_param(autoclock, bool, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(autoclock, "Enable auto-clock selection for UAC2 devices (default: yes)."); module_param_array(quirk_alias, charp, NULL, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(quirk_alias, "Quirk aliases, e.g. 0123abcd:5678beef."); +module_param_named(use_vmalloc, snd_usb_use_vmalloc, bool, 0444); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(use_vmalloc, "Use vmalloc for PCM intermediate buffers (default: yes)."); /* * we keep the snd_usb_audio_t instances by ourselves for merging |