ALSA: firewire: use nonatomic PCM operation

In the former commits, the callback of isochronous context runs on usual
work process. In the case, ALSA PCM device has a flag, nonatomic, to
acquire mutex lock instead of spin lock for PCM substream group.

This commit uses the flag. It has an advantage in the case that ALSA PCM
application uses the large size of intermediate buffer, since it takes
too long time even in tasklet softIRQ to process many of isochronous
packets, then result in the delay of system event due to disabled IRQ so
long. It is avertible to switch to nonatomic operation.

Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Edmund Raile <edmund.raile@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904125155.461886-6-o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>

10 files changed, 36 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c b/sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c
index c827d7d8d800..c72b2a754775 100644
--- a/sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c
+++ b/sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c
@@ -615,6 +615,22 @@ static void update_pcm_pointers(struct amdtp_stream *s,
 		// The program in user process should periodically check the status of intermediate
 		// buffer associated to PCM substream to process PCM frames in the buffer, instead
 		// of receiving notification of period elapsed by poll wait.
+		//
+		// Use another work item for period elapsed event to prevent the following AB/BA
+		// deadlock:
+		//
+		//             thread 1                            thread 2
+		// =================================   =================================
+		//       A.work item (process)                pcm ioctl (process)
+		//                 v                                   v
+		//       process_rx_packets()                  B.PCM stream lock
+		//       process_tx_packets()                          v
+		//                 v                        callbacks in snd_pcm_ops
+		//       update_pcm_pointers()                         v
+		//         snd_pcm_elapsed()           fw_iso_context_flush_completions()
+		//  snd_pcm_stream_lock_irqsave()             disable_work_sync()
+		//                 v                                   v
+		//     wait until release of B                wait until A exits
 		if (!pcm->runtime->no_period_wakeup)
 			queue_work(system_highpri_wq, &s->period_work);
 	}
@@ -1055,8 +1071,15 @@ static void generate_rx_packet_descs(struct amdtp_stream *s, struct pkt_desc *de
 
 static inline void cancel_stream(struct amdtp_stream *s)
 {
+	struct work_struct *work = current_work();
+
 	s->packet_index = -1;
-	if (in_softirq())
+
+	// Detect work items for any isochronous context. The work item for pcm_period_work()
+	// should be avoided since the call of snd_pcm_period_elapsed() can reach via
+	// snd_pcm_ops.pointer() under acquiring PCM stream(group) lock and causes dead lock at
+	// snd_pcm_stop_xrun().
+	if (work && work != &s->period_work)
 		amdtp_stream_pcm_abort(s);
 	WRITE_ONCE(s->pcm_buffer_pointer, SNDRV_PCM_POS_XRUN);
 }
@@ -1856,12 +1879,9 @@ unsigned long amdtp_domain_stream_pcm_pointer(struct amdtp_domain *d,
 	struct amdtp_stream *irq_target = d->irq_target;
 
 	if (irq_target && amdtp_stream_running(irq_target)) {
-		// use wq to prevent AB/BA deadlock competition for
-		// substream lock:
-		// fw_iso_context_flush_completions() acquires
-		// lock by ohci_flush_iso_completions(),
-		// amdtp-stream process_rx_packets() attempts to
-		// acquire same lock by snd_pcm_elapsed()
+		// The work item to call snd_pcm_period_elapsed() can reach here by the call of
+		// snd_pcm_ops.pointer(), however less packets would be available then. Therefore
+		// the following call is just for user process contexts.
 		if (current_work() != &s->period_work)
 			fw_iso_context_flush_completions(irq_target->context);
 	}
diff --git a/sound/firewire/bebob/bebob_pcm.c b/sound/firewire/bebob/bebob_pcm.c
index ce49eef0fcba..360ebf3c4ca2 100644
--- a/sound/firewire/bebob/bebob_pcm.c
+++ b/sound/firewire/bebob/bebob_pcm.c
@@ -367,6 +367,7 @@ int snd_bebob_create_pcm_devices(struct snd_bebob *bebob)
 		goto end;
 
 	pcm->private_data = bebob;
+	pcm->nonatomic = true;
 	snprintf(pcm->name, sizeof(pcm->name),
 		 "%s PCM", bebob->card->shortname);
 	snd_pcm_set_ops(pcm, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, &playback_ops);
diff --git a/sound/firewire/dice/dice-pcm.c b/sound/firewire/dice/dice-pcm.c
index d64366217d57..2cf2adb48f2a 100644
--- a/sound/firewire/dice/dice-pcm.c
+++ b/sound/firewire/dice/dice-pcm.c
@@ -441,6 +441,7 @@ int snd_dice_create_pcm(struct snd_dice *dice)
 		if (err < 0)
 			return err;
 		pcm->private_data = dice;
+		pcm->nonatomic = true;
 		strcpy(pcm->name, dice->card->shortname);
 
 		if (capture > 0)
diff --git a/sound/firewire/digi00x/digi00x-pcm.c b/sound/firewire/digi00x/digi00x-pcm.c
index 3bd1575c9d9c..85e65cbc00c4 100644
--- a/sound/firewire/digi00x/digi00x-pcm.c
+++ b/sound/firewire/digi00x/digi00x-pcm.c
@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ int snd_dg00x_create_pcm_devices(struct snd_dg00x *dg00x)
 		return err;
 
 	pcm->private_data = dg00x;
+	pcm->nonatomic = true;
 	snprintf(pcm->name, sizeof(pcm->name),
 		 "%s PCM", dg00x->card->shortname);
 	snd_pcm_set_ops(pcm, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, &playback_ops);
diff --git a/sound/firewire/fireface/ff-pcm.c b/sound/firewire/fireface/ff-pcm.c
index ec915671a79b..63457d24a288 100644
--- a/sound/firewire/fireface/ff-pcm.c
+++ b/sound/firewire/fireface/ff-pcm.c
@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ int snd_ff_create_pcm_devices(struct snd_ff *ff)
 		return err;
 
 	pcm->private_data = ff;
+	pcm->nonatomic = true;
 	snprintf(pcm->name, sizeof(pcm->name),
 		 "%s PCM", ff->card->shortname);
 	snd_pcm_set_ops(pcm, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, &pcm_playback_ops);
diff --git a/sound/firewire/fireworks/fireworks_pcm.c b/sound/firewire/fireworks/fireworks_pcm.c
index c3c21860b245..eaf7778211de 100644
--- a/sound/firewire/fireworks/fireworks_pcm.c
+++ b/sound/firewire/fireworks/fireworks_pcm.c
@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ int snd_efw_create_pcm_devices(struct snd_efw *efw)
 		goto end;
 
 	pcm->private_data = efw;
+	pcm->nonatomic = true;
 	snprintf(pcm->name, sizeof(pcm->name), "%s PCM", efw->card->shortname);
 	snd_pcm_set_ops(pcm, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, &playback_ops);
 	snd_pcm_set_ops(pcm, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE, &capture_ops);
diff --git a/sound/firewire/isight.c b/sound/firewire/isight.c
index 806f82c9ceee..b1e059f0d473 100644
--- a/sound/firewire/isight.c
+++ b/sound/firewire/isight.c
@@ -454,6 +454,7 @@ static int isight_create_pcm(struct isight *isight)
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;
 	pcm->private_data = isight;
+	pcm->nonatomic = true;
 	strcpy(pcm->name, "iSight");
 	isight->pcm = pcm->streams[SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE].substream;
 	isight->pcm->ops = &ops;
diff --git a/sound/firewire/motu/motu-pcm.c b/sound/firewire/motu/motu-pcm.c
index d410c2efbde5..f3b48495acae 100644
--- a/sound/firewire/motu/motu-pcm.c
+++ b/sound/firewire/motu/motu-pcm.c
@@ -360,6 +360,7 @@ int snd_motu_create_pcm_devices(struct snd_motu *motu)
 	if (err < 0)
 		return err;
 	pcm->private_data = motu;
+	pcm->nonatomic = true;
 	strcpy(pcm->name, motu->card->shortname);
 
 	snd_pcm_set_ops(pcm, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE, &capture_ops);
diff --git a/sound/firewire/oxfw/oxfw-pcm.c b/sound/firewire/oxfw/oxfw-pcm.c
index 5f43a0b826d2..8ca9dde54ec6 100644
--- a/sound/firewire/oxfw/oxfw-pcm.c
+++ b/sound/firewire/oxfw/oxfw-pcm.c
@@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ int snd_oxfw_create_pcm(struct snd_oxfw *oxfw)
 		return err;
 
 	pcm->private_data = oxfw;
+	pcm->nonatomic = true;
 	strcpy(pcm->name, oxfw->card->shortname);
 	snd_pcm_set_ops(pcm, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, &playback_ops);
 	if (cap > 0)
diff --git a/sound/firewire/tascam/tascam-pcm.c b/sound/firewire/tascam/tascam-pcm.c
index f6da571707ac..a73003ac11e6 100644
--- a/sound/firewire/tascam/tascam-pcm.c
+++ b/sound/firewire/tascam/tascam-pcm.c
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ int snd_tscm_create_pcm_devices(struct snd_tscm *tscm)
 		return err;
 
 	pcm->private_data = tscm;
+	pcm->nonatomic = true;
 	snprintf(pcm->name, sizeof(pcm->name),
 		 "%s PCM", tscm->card->shortname);
 	snd_pcm_set_ops(pcm, SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, &playback_ops);