For supporting the explicit in-kernel copy of PCM buffer data, and
also for further code refactoring, three new PCM ops, copy_user,
copy_kernel and fill_silence, are introduced. The old copy and
silence ops will be deprecated and removed later once when all callers
are converted.
The copy_kernel ops is the new one, and it's supposed to transfer the
PCM data from the given kernel buffer to the hardware ring-buffer (or
vice-versa depending on the stream direction), while the copy_user ops
is equivalent with the former copy ops, to transfer the data from the
user-space buffer.
The major difference of the new copy_* and fill_silence ops from the
previous ops is that the new ops take bytes instead of frames for size
and position arguments. It has two merits: first, it allows the
callback implementation often simpler (just call directly memcpy() &
co), and second, it may unify the implementations of both interleaved
and non-interleaved cases, as we'll see in the later patch.
As of this stage, copy_kernel ops isn't referred yet, but only
copy_user is used.
Reviewed-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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