This patch adds the support for the feature to automatically allocate
and free PCM buffers, so called "managed buffer allocation" mode.
It's set up via new PCM helpers, snd_pcm_set_managed_buffer() and
snd_pcm_set_managed_buffer_all(), both of which correspond to the
existing preallocator helpers, snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages() and
snd_pcm_lib_preallocate_pages_for_all(). When the new helper is used,
it not only performs the pre-allocation of buffers, but also it
manages to call snd_pcm_lib_malloc_pages() before the PCM hw_params
ops and snd_lib_pcm_free() after the PCM hw_free ops inside PCM core,
respectively. This allows drivers to drop the explicit calls of the
memory allocation / release functions, and it will be a good amount of
code reduction in the end of this patch series.
When the PCM substream is set to the managed buffer allocation mode,
the managed_buffer_alloc flag is set in the substream object. Since
some drivers want to know when a buffer is newly allocated or
re-allocated at hw_params callback (e.g. want to set up the additional
stuff for the given buffer only at allocation time), now PCM core
turns on buffer_changed flag when the buffer has changed.
The standard conversions to use the new API will be straightforward:
- Replace snd_pcm_lib_preallocate*() calls with the corresponding
snd_pcm_set_managed_buffer*(); the arguments should be unchanged
- Drop superfluous snd_pcm_lib_malloc() and snd_pcm_lib_free() calls;
the check of snd_pcm_lib_malloc() returns should be replaced with
the check of runtime->buffer_changed flag.
- If hw_params or hw_free becomes empty, drop them from PCM ops
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191117085308.23915-2-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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