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Takashi Iwai e1b239f371 ALSA: x86: Refactor PCM process engine
This is again a big rewrite of the driver; now it touches the code to
process PCM stream transfers.

The most fundamental change is that the driver may support more than
four periods.  Instead of keeping the same index between both the ring
buffer (with the fixed four buffer descriptors) and the PCM buffer
periods, we keep difference indices for both (bd_head and pcm_head
fields).  In addition, when the periods are more than four, we need to
track both head and next indices.  That is, we now have three indices:
bd_head, pcm_head and pcm_filled.

Also, the driver works better for periods < 4, too: the remaining BDs
out of four are marked as invalid, so that the hardware skips those
BDs in its loop.

By this flexibility, we can use even ALSA-lib dmix plugin, which
requires 16 periods as default.

The buffer size could be up to 20bit, so the max buffer size was
increased accordingly.  However, the buffer pre-allocation is kept as
the old value (600kB) as default.  The reason is the limited number of
BDs: since it doesn't suffice for the useful SG page management that
can fit with the usual page allocator like some other drivers, we have
to still allocate continuous pages, hence we shouldn't take too big
memories there.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2017-02-06 12:21:10 +01:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-01-22 12:47:48 -08:00
block blk-mq: Remove unused variable 2017-01-18 15:14:15 -07:00
certs
crypto crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input 2016-12-27 17:32:11 +08:00
Documentation Documentation/gpu: Move LPE audio section after HD-audio 2017-01-26 11:25:01 +01:00
drivers drm/i915: Enable VLV audio chicken bit for LPE audio 2017-02-03 16:19:08 +01:00
firmware
fs Three filesystem endianness fixes (one goes back to the 2.6 era, all 2017-01-20 12:15:48 -08:00
include ALSA: pcm: Define dummy snd_pcm_suspend() for CONFIG_PM=n 2017-02-05 08:58:46 +01:00
init cgroup: move CONFIG_SOCK_CGROUP_DATA to init/Kconfig 2017-01-11 09:47:10 -05:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-01-22 12:45:47 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'stable/for-linus-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb 2017-01-17 09:27:50 -08:00
mm mm/hugetlb.c: fix reservation race when freeing surplus pages 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
net Three filesystem endianness fixes (one goes back to the 2.6 era, all 2017-01-20 12:15:48 -08:00
samples Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-01-15 11:37:43 -08:00
scripts gcc-plugins: update gcc-common.h for gcc-7 2017-01-03 12:08:59 -08:00
security Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
sound ALSA: x86: Refactor PCM process engine 2017-02-06 12:21:10 +01:00
tools virtio, vhost: fixes, cleanups 2017-01-22 12:40:09 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for 4.10-rc4 2017-01-17 15:04:59 +01:00
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MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC fixes 2017-01-19 16:40:03 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.10-rc5 2017-01-22 12:54:15 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
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Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.