Re: [PATCH V2 5/9] ASoC: amd: ps: add support for SoundWire DMA interrupts

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 5/23/23 02:36, Mukunda,Vijendar wrote:
> On 22/05/23 23:42, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>>
>> On 5/22/23 08:31, Vijendar Mukunda wrote:
>>> Initialize workqueue for SoundWire DMA interrupts handling.
>>> Whenever audio data equal to the SoundWire FIFO watermark level
>>> are produced/consumed, interrupt is generated.
>>> Acknowledge the interrupt and schedule the workqueue.
>> It would help to explain why a work queue is needed is the first place,
>> as opposed to handling periods in the interrupt thread.
> For SoundWire DAI link, we are setting nonatomic flag to true.
> If we return period elapsed from hard irq handler instead of workqueue,
> soft lock up is observed during stream closure.
> 
> We can use interrupt thread as well. To have a symmetry with
> SoundWire manager work queues, we have used workqueue for
> DMA interrupts.

Oh, I completely missed the model here.

If you are using the bottom half/hard irq handler to read status
information, the natural thing to do would be to have an irq thread, no?

Not sure I see the benefit of aligning with the manager work queues -
unless it makes your life simpler to avoid race conditions with
cancel_work_sync()?

>>> +static void acp63_sdw_dma_workthread(struct work_struct *work)
>>> +{
>>> +	struct acp63_dev_data *adata = container_of(work, struct acp63_dev_data,
>>> +						    acp_sdw_dma_work);
>>> +	struct sdw_dma_dev_data *sdw_dma_data;
>>> +	u32 stream_index;
>>> +	u16 pdev_index;
>>> +
>>> +	pdev_index = adata->sdw_dma_dev_index;
>>> +	sdw_dma_data = dev_get_drvdata(&adata->pdev[pdev_index]->dev);
>>> +
>>> +	for (stream_index = 0; stream_index < ACP63_SDW0_DMA_MAX_STREAMS; stream_index++) {
>>> +		if (adata->sdw0_dma_intr_stat[stream_index]) {
>>> +			if (sdw_dma_data->sdw0_dma_stream[stream_index])
>>> +				snd_pcm_period_elapsed(sdw_dma_data->sdw0_dma_stream[stream_index]);
>>> +			adata->sdw0_dma_intr_stat[stream_index] = 0;
>>> +		}
>>> +	}
>>> +	for (stream_index = 0; stream_index < ACP63_SDW1_DMA_MAX_STREAMS; stream_index++) {
>>> +		if (adata->sdw1_dma_intr_stat[stream_index]) {
>>> +			if (sdw_dma_data->sdw1_dma_stream[stream_index])
>>> +				snd_pcm_period_elapsed(sdw_dma_data->sdw1_dma_stream[stream_index]);
>>> +			adata->sdw1_dma_intr_stat[stream_index] = 0;
>>> +		}
>>> +	}
>> I am not clear on the benefits of the workqueue which only tests a flag
>> that's set ...
> In top half, we are checking all stream irq mask and setting
> corresponding stream id index in interrupt status array when dma
> irq is raised.
> 
> Our intention is to handle snd_pcm_period_elapsed in process context.
> if the flag is set, call the period elapsed for the substream based on stream
> id in work queue.