Re: [regression] Regular "cracks" in HDMI sound during playback since backport to 6.1.y for 92afcc310038 ("ALSA: hda: Conditionally use snooping for AMD HDMI")

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:36:36 +0200,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:19:49 +0200,
> Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > In downstream Debian we got a report from  Eric Degenetais, in
> > https://bugs.debian.org/1081833 that after the update to the 6.1.106
> > based version, there were regular cracks in HDMI sound during
> > playback.
> > 
> > Eric was able to bisec the issue down to
> > 92afcc310038ebe5d66c689bb0bf418f5451201c in the v6.1.y series which
> > got applied in 6.1.104.
> > 
> > Cf. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1081833#47
> > 
> > #regzbot introduced: 92afcc310038ebe5d66c689bb0bf418f5451201c
> > #regzbot link: https://bugs.debian.org/1081833
> > 
> > It should be noted that Eric as well tried more recent stable series
> > as well, in particular did test as well 6.10.6 based version back on
> > 20th september, and the issue was reproducible there as well.
> > 
> > Is there anything else we can try to provide?
> 
> Could you check 6.12-rc1 kernel whether the problem still appears?
> If yes, check with snd_hda_intel.snoop=0 boot option. 
> 
> I guess we should revert the patch in anyway; for 6.12, it's no longer
> correct to check with get_dma_ops(), and if this causes a problem on
> the older releases, the assumption isn't correct, either.

I decided to revert the commit.  Will submit the patch now.


Takashi