> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:46:32 -0400
> Von: Lee Revell <[email protected]>
> An: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
> Betreff: Re: RFC: dma_mmap_coherent() for powerpc/ppc architecture and
> ALSA?
>
> On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 10:34 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > This leads me to the question, if there are any plans to include the
> > > dma_mmap_coherent() function (for powerpc/ppc and/or any other
> > > platform) in one of the next kernel versions and if an adapation of
> > > the ALSA drivers is planned. Or is there a simple way (hack) to fix
> > > this problem?
> >
> > You are welcome to do a patch implementing this :)
>
> Please cc: alsa-devel when you do so.
:)
Well, implementing the dma_mmap_coherent() function isn't the problem, because it is already implemented for the ARM architecture. But as far as I understand this would require a rewrite of all the ALSA drivers (or at least a rewrite of the ALSA's DMA helper functions).
Original mail included for alsa-devel mailing list:
> I'm trying to adapt Linux for the AmigaOne, which is a G3/G4 PPC desktop
> system with a non cache coherent northbridge (MAI ArticiaS), a VIA82C686B
> southbridge and the U-boot firmware. Due to the cache coherency problem I
> compiled in the CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE option
> (arch/ppc/kernel/dma-mapping.c) in the AmigaOne Linux kernel.
> While that fixes the DMA data corruption problem, it causes a kernel oops
> or a complete system lookup after starting sound playback. With kernel
> versions =<2.6.14 the oops messages refered to a BUG() entry in
> mm/rmap.c. Therefore I tried out a newer kernel (2.6.16.15), where the
> oops refers to the ALSA function snd_pcm_mmap_data_nopage() implemented
> in pcm_native.c.
> Well, after searching a while in some old linux kernel threads, I found
> this thread here:
> http://www.thisishull.net/showthread.php?t=22080&page=3&pp=10
> Based on the information in this thread, I came to the conclusion that
> ALSA simply won't work on non cache coherent architectures (except ARM),
> because the generic DMA API was never expanded to support the
> functionality required by ALSA (namely mapping dma pages into user space > with dma_mmap_coherent()).
> This leads me to the question, if there are any plans to include the
> dma_mmap_coherent() function (for powerpc/ppc and/or any other platform)
> in one of the next kernel versions and if an adapation of the ALSA
> drivers is planned. Or is there a simple way (hack) to fix this problem?
Gerhard
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