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Henrik Eriksson 20e3f985bb ALSA: pcm: update tstamp only if audio_tstamp changed commit `3179f62001` ("ALSA: core: add .get_time_info") had a side effect of changing the behaviour of the PCM runtime tstamp. Prior to this change tstamp was not updated by snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr0() unless the hw_ptr had moved, after this change tstamp was always updated. For an application using alsa-lib, doing snd_pcm_readi() followed by snd_pcm_status() to estimate the age of the read samples by subtracting status->avail * [sample rate] from status->tstamp this change degraded the accuracy of the estimate on devices where the pcm hw does not provide a granular hw_ptr, e.g., devices using soc-generic-dmaengine-pcm.c and a dma-engine with residue_granularity DMA_RESIDUE_GRANULARITY_DESCRIPTOR. The accuracy of the estimate depended on the latency between the PCM hw completing a period and the driver called snd_pcm_period_elapsed() to notify ALSA core, typically determined by interrupt handling latency. After the change the accuracy of the estimate depended on the latency between the PCM hw completing a period and the application calling snd_pcm_status(), determined by the scheduling of the application process. The maximum error of the estimate is one period length in both cases, but the error average and variance is smaller when it depends on interrupt latency. Instead of always updating tstamp, update it only if audio_tstamp changed. Fixes: `3179f62001` ("ALSA: core: add .get_time_info") Suggested-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Henrik Eriksson <henrik.eriksson@axis.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>		2017-11-21 13:59:19 +01:00
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README

Linux kernel
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This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.