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    ALSA: pcm: Allow nonatomic trigger operations · 257f8cce
    Takashi Iwai authored
    
    
    Currently, many PCM operations are performed in a critical section
    protected by spinlock, typically the trigger and pointer callbacks are
    assumed to be atomic.  This is basically because some trigger action
    (e.g. PCM stop after drain or xrun) is done in the interrupt handler.
    If a driver runs in a threaded irq, however, this doesn't have to be
    atomic.  And many devices want to handle trigger in a non-atomic
    context due to lengthy communications.
    
    This patch tries all PCM calls operational in non-atomic context.
    What it does is very simple: replaces the substream spinlock with the
    corresponding substream mutex when pcm->nonatomic flag is set.  The
    driver that wants to use the non-atomic PCM ops just needs to set the
    flag and keep the rest as is.  (Of course, it must not handle any PCM
    ops in irq context.)
    
    Note that the code doesn't check whether it's atomic-safe or not, but
    trust in 100% that the driver sets pcm->nonatomic correctly.
    
    One possible problem is the case where linked PCM substreams have
    inconsistent nonatomic states.  For avoiding this, snd_pcm_link()
    returns an error if one tries to link an inconsistent PCM substream.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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