summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation/sound
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2019-11-05 09:01:38 +0100
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2019-11-06 15:43:33 +0100
commitabffd8d0d5380e2c37759ba6be1f6bf47bfe975f (patch)
tree3bea587c30aadb5f1e6fc4f7e23bad855a02bd18 /Documentation/sound
parent7e8edae39fd1f880f098612c991cf6d0f646c20d (diff)
ALSA: docs: Update documentation about SG- and vmalloc-buffers
The recent changes simplified the required setup for SG- and vmalloc- buffers. Update the documentation accordingly. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191105080138.1260-5-tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sound')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst66
1 files changed, 37 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst b/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst
index 5385618fd881..ba008ce28029 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst
+++ b/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst
@@ -2095,10 +2095,12 @@ This callback is atomic as default.
page callback
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-This callback is optional too. This callback is used mainly for
-non-contiguous buffers. The mmap calls this callback to get the page
-address. Some examples will be explained in the later section `Buffer
-and Memory Management`_, too.
+This callback is optional too. The mmap calls this callback to get the
+page fault address.
+
+Since the recent changes, you need no special callback any longer for
+the standard SG-buffer or vmalloc-buffer. Hence this callback should
+be rarely used.
mmap calllback
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -3700,8 +3702,15 @@ For creating the SG-buffer handler, call
``SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_SG`` in the PCM constructor like other PCI
pre-allocator. You need to pass ``snd_dma_pci_data(pci)``, where pci is
the :c:type:`struct pci_dev <pci_dev>` pointer of the chip as
-well. The ``struct snd_sg_buf`` instance is created as
-``substream->dma_private``. You can cast the pointer like:
+well.
+
+::
+
+ snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all(pcm, SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_SG,
+ snd_dma_pci_data(pci), size, max);
+
+The ``struct snd_sg_buf`` instance is created as
+``substream->dma_private`` in turn. You can cast the pointer like:
::
@@ -3717,10 +3726,6 @@ physically non-contiguous. The physical address table is set up in
``sgbuf->table``. You can get the physical address at a certain offset
via :c:func:`snd_pcm_sgbuf_get_addr()`.
-When a SG-handler is used, you need to set
-:c:func:`snd_pcm_sgbuf_ops_page()` as the ``page`` callback. (See
-`page callback`_ section.)
-
To release the data, call :c:func:`snd_pcm_lib_free_pages()` in
the ``hw_free`` callback as usual.
@@ -3728,30 +3733,33 @@ Vmalloc'ed Buffers
------------------
It's possible to use a buffer allocated via :c:func:`vmalloc()`, for
-example, for an intermediate buffer. Since the allocated pages are not
-contiguous, you need to set the ``page`` callback to obtain the physical
-address at every offset.
+example, for an intermediate buffer. In the recent version of kernel,
+you can simply allocate it via standard
+:c:func:`snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages()` and co after setting up the
+buffer preallocation with ``SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_VMALLOC`` type.
-The easiest way to achieve it would be to use
-:c:func:`snd_pcm_lib_alloc_vmalloc_buffer()` for allocating the buffer
-via :c:func:`vmalloc()`, and set :c:func:`snd_pcm_sgbuf_ops_page()` to
-the ``page`` callback. At release, you need to call
-:c:func:`snd_pcm_lib_free_vmalloc_buffer()`.
+::
-If you want to implementation the ``page`` manually, it would be like
-this:
+ snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all(pcm, SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_VMALLOC,
+ NULL, 0, 0);
-::
+The NULL is passed to the device pointer argument, which indicates
+that the default pages (GFP_KERNEL and GFP_HIGHMEM) will be
+allocated.
- #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+Also, note that zero is passed to both the size and the max size
+arguments here. Since each vmalloc call should succeed at any time,
+we don't need to pre-allocate the buffers like other continuous
+pages.
- /* get the physical page pointer on the given offset */
- static struct page *mychip_page(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
- unsigned long offset)
- {
- void *pageptr = substream->runtime->dma_area + offset;
- return vmalloc_to_page(pageptr);
- }
+If you need the 32bit DMA allocation, pass the device pointer encoded
+by :c:func:`snd_dma_continuous_data()` with ``GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_DMA32``
+argument.
+
+::
+
+ snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all(pcm, SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_VMALLOC,
+ snd_dma_continuous_data(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_DMA32), 0, 0);
Proc Interface
==============