Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] ASoC: soc-pcm: protect BE dailink state changes in trigger
From: Pierre-Louis Bossart
Date: Thu Aug 26 2021 - 15:24:26 EST
On 8/26/21 1:30 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> From: Mark Brown,,, <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 11:40:53 -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>> When more than one FE is connected to a BE, e.g. in a mixing use case,
>> the BE can be triggered multiple times when the FE are opened/started
>> concurrently. This race condition is problematic in the case of
>> SoundWire BE dailinks, and this is not desirable in a general
>> case. The code carefully checks when the BE can be stopped or
>> hw_free'ed, but the trigger code does not use any mutual exclusion.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Applied, thanks!
>
> [1/2] ASoC: soc-pcm: protect BE dailink state changes in trigger
> commit: 0c75fc7193387776c10f7c7b440d93496e3d5e21
> [2/2] ASoC: soc-pcm: test refcount before triggering
> commit: 6479f7588651cbc9c91e61c20ff39119cbc8feba
Ah sorry, there were still some issues in this RFC, we did more testing
and came up with a lot of improvements. The intent of the RFC status was
also to make sure it wasn't applied before the merge window.
Can this be reverted in your branch Mark?