ASoC: qcom: q6asm-dai: Add SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BATCH flag

At the moment, playing audio with PulseAudio with the qdsp6 driver
results in distorted sound. It seems like its timer-based scheduling
does not work properly with qdsp6 since setting tsched=0 in
the PulseAudio configuration avoids the issue.

Apparently this happens when the pointer() callback is not accurate
enough. There is a SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BATCH flag that can be used to stop
PulseAudio from using timer-based scheduling by default.

According to https://www.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2014-March/073816.html:

    The flag is being used in the sense explained in the previous audio
    meeting -- the data transfer granularity isn't fine enough but aligned
    to the period size (or less).

q6asm-dai reports the position as multiple of

    prtd->pcm_count = snd_pcm_lib_period_bytes(substream)

so it indeed just a multiple of the period size.

Therefore adding the flag here seems appropriate and makes audio
work out of the box.

Fixes: 2a9e92d371db ("ASoC: qdsp6: q6asm: Add q6asm dai driver")
Signed-off-by: Stephan Gerhold <stephan@gerhold.net>
Reviewed-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200330175210.47518-1-stephan@gerhold.net
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

diff --git a/sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6asm-dai.c b/sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6asm-dai.c
index f6c7cddf08e8a96663cd7950d99c1f3019286445..125af00bba5397d6427c9c847ffc1eac721d8fb1 100644 (file)
--- a/sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6asm-dai.c
+++ b/sound/soc/qcom/qdsp6/q6asm-dai.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ struct q6asm_dai_data {
 };
 
 static const struct snd_pcm_hardware q6asm_dai_hardware_capture = {
-       .info =                 (SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP |
+       .info =                 (SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP | SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BATCH |
                                SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BLOCK_TRANSFER |
                                SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP_VALID |
                                SNDRV_PCM_INFO_INTERLEAVED |
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static const struct snd_pcm_hardware q6asm_dai_hardware_capture = {
 };
 
 static struct snd_pcm_hardware q6asm_dai_hardware_playback = {
-       .info =                 (SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP |
+       .info =                 (SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP | SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BATCH |
                                SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BLOCK_TRANSFER |
                                SNDRV_PCM_INFO_MMAP_VALID |
                                SNDRV_PCM_INFO_INTERLEAVED |