Re: [PATCH v4 31/32] sound: usb: card: Allow for rediscovery of connected USB SND devices
From: Pierre-Louis Bossart
Date: Wed Aug 16 2023 - 11:36:14 EST
On 8/15/23 20:38, Wesley Cheng wrote:
> Hi Pierre,
>
> On 7/25/2023 2:15 AM, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 7/25/23 04:34, Wesley Cheng wrote:
>>> In case of notifying SND platform drivers of connection events, some of
>>> these use cases, such as offloading, require an ASoC USB backend
>>> device to
>>> be initialized before the events can be handled. If the USB backend
>>> device
>>> has not yet been probed, this leads to missing initial USB audio device
>>> connection events.
>>>
>>> Expose an API that traverses the usb_chip array for connected
>>> devices, and
>>> to call the respective connection callback registered to the SND
>>> platform
>>> driver.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Wesley Cheng <quic_wcheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> sound/usb/card.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>>> sound/usb/card.h | 2 ++
>>> 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/sound/usb/card.c b/sound/usb/card.c
>>> index 365f6d978608..27a89aaa0bf3 100644
>>> --- a/sound/usb/card.c
>>> +++ b/sound/usb/card.c
>>> @@ -170,6 +170,25 @@ struct snd_usb_stream
>>> *snd_usb_find_suppported_substream(int card_idx,
>>> }
>>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(snd_usb_find_suppported_substream);
>>> +/*
>>> + * in case the platform driver was not ready at the time of USB SND
>>> + * device connect, expose an API to discover all connected USB devices
>>> + * so it can populate any dependent resources/structures.
>>> + */
>>> +void snd_usb_rediscover_devices(void)
>>> +{
>>> + int i;
>>> +
>>> + mutex_lock(®ister_mutex);
>>> + for (i = 0; i < SNDRV_CARDS; i++) {
>>> + if (usb_chip[i])
>>> + if (platform_ops && platform_ops->connect_cb)
>>> + platform_ops->connect_cb(usb_chip[i]);
>>
>> what happens if the USB device is removed while the platform device adds
>> a port?
>>
>> This sounds super-racy to me. It's the same set of problems we're having
>> between audio and display/DRM, I would be surprised if this function
>> dealt with all corner cases of insertion/removal, bind/unbind.
>>
>
> The chip array entries are all populated and removed while under the
> register_mutex, so going over your race condition, we should see:
>
> Thread#1:
> q6usb_component_probe()
> --> snd_soc_usb_add_port()
> --> snd_usb_rediscover_devices()
> --> mutex_lock(register_mutex)
>
> Thread#2
> --> usb_audio_disconnect()
> --> mutex_lock(register_mutex)
>
> So either thread#1 or thread#2 will complete first. If
>
> Thread#1 completes before thread#2:
> SOC USB will notify DPCM backend of the device connection. Shortly
> after, once thread#2 runs, we will get a disconnect event for the
> connected device.
>
> Thread#2 completes before thread#1:
> Then during snd_usb_rediscover_devices() we won't notify of any
> connection for that particular chip index.
You really want to capture this locking model as part of the commit
messages or code, it'll help reviewers figure things out.