malloc()less feeder_vchan. Informations can be retrieved dynamically
by doing table lookup on static data. Reduce mixing overhead by
doing direct copy on first channel. Mixing process will begin starting
from second channel onwards.
in every sense.
General
-------
- Multichannel safe, endian safe, format safe
* Large part of critical pcm filters such as vchan.c, feeder_rate.c,
feeder_volume.c, feeder_fmt.c and feeder.c has been rewritten so that
using them does not cause the pcm data to be converted to 16bit little
endian.
* Macrosses for accessing pcm data safely are defined within sound.h in
the form of PCM_READ_* / PCM_WRITE_*
* Currently, most of them are probably limited for mono/stereo handling,
but the future addition of true multichannel will be much easier.
- Low latency operation
* Well, this require lot more works to do not just within sound driver,
but we're heading towards right direction. Buffer/block sizing within
channel.c is rewritten to calculate precise allocation for various
combination of sample/data/rate size. As a result, applying correct
SNDCTL_DSP_POLICY value will achive expected latency behaviour simmilar
to what commercial 4front driver do.
* Signal handling fix. ctrl+c of "cat /dev/zero > /dev/dsp" does not
result long delay.
* Eliminate sound truncation if the sound data is too small.
DIY:
1) Download / extract
http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/lowlatency/shortfiles.tar.gz
2) Do a comparison between "cat state*.au > /dev/dsp" and
"for x in state*.au ; do cat $x > /dev/dsp ; done"
- there should be no "perceivable" differences.
Double close for PR kern/31445.
CAVEAT: Low latency come with (unbearable) price especially for poorly
written applications. Applications that trying to act smarter
by requesting (wrong) blocksize/blockcount will suffer the most.
Fixup samples/patches can be found at:
http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/ports/
- Switch minimum/maximum sampling rate limit to "1" and "2016000" (48k * 42)
due to closer compatibility with 4front driver.
Discussed with: marcus@ (long time ago?)
- All driver specific sysctls in the form of "hw.snd.pcm%d.*" have been
moved to their own dev sysctl nodes, notably:
hw.snd.pcm%d.vchans -> dev.pcm.%d.vchans
Bump __FreeBSD_version.
Driver specific
---------------
- Ditto for sysctls.
- snd_atiixp, snd_es137x, snd_via8233, snd_hda
* Numerous cleanups and fixes.
* _EXPERIMENTAL_ polling mode support using simple callout_* mechanisme.
This was intended for pure debugging and latency measurement, but proven
good enough in few unexpected and rare cases (such as problematic shared
IRQ with GIANT devices - USB). Polling can be enabled/disabled through
dev.pcm.0.polling. Disabled by default.
- snd_ich
* Fix possible overflow during speed calibration. Delay final
initialization (pcm_setstatus) after calibration finished.
PR: kern/100169
Tested by: Kevin Overman <oberman@es.net>
* Inverted EAPD for few Nec VersaPro.
PR: kern/104715
Submitted by: KAWATA Masahiko <kawata@mta.biglobe.ne.jp>
Thanks to various people, notably Joel Dahl, Yuriy Tsibizov, Kevin Oberman,
those at #freebsd-azalia @ freenode and others for testing.
Joel Dahl will do the manpage update.
- Enable 4 automatic vchan's by default.
- Add some comments which provide ides/questions for improvement.
- Prefix some temporary sysctl's with an underscore to denote that it is not
an official API but a workaround until the real solution is implemented.
to avoid possible device unregister race (impossible to reproduce, yet
possible).
- Extra sanity check to ensure proper parent channel is being selected.
- Reset parent channel once all of its children gone.
especially for vchans. It turns out that channel numbering always depend
on d->devcount counter (which keep increasing), while PCMMKMINOR() truncate
everything to 8bit length. At some point the truncation cause the newly
created character device overlapped with the existence one, causing erratic
overall system behaviour and panic. Easily reproduce with something like:
(Luckily, only root can reproduce this)
while : ; do
sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=200
sysctl hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=100
done
- Enforce channel/chardev numbering within 8bit boundary. Return E2BIG
if necessary.
- Traverse d->channels SLIST and try to reclaim "free" counter during channel
creation. Don't rely on d->devcount at all.
- Destroy vchans in reverse order.
Anyway, this is not the fault of vchans. It is just that vchans are so cute
and begging to be abused ;) . Don't blame her.
Old, hidden bugs.. sigh..
MFC after: 3 days
sampling rate:
- Improve vchan chn_setspeed() strategy. Try to avoid FEEDER_RATE
on parent channel if the requested value is not supported
by the hardware.
- Fix vchan default speed calculation. In any case, vchan should
rely on parent bufsoft speed instead of bufhard since it is
possible that the entire feeder chain might involve FEEDER_RATE.
This is possible under extreme, rare condition if the above
chn_setspeed() strategy failed.
Approved by: netchild (mentor)
* New definition CHN_F_HAS_VCHAN.
- channel.c
* Use CHN_F_HAS_VCHAN to mark channel with vchan capability instead
of relying on SLIST_EMPTY(&channel->children) == true for better
clarification and future possible usages of children (like
'slave' channel).
* Various fixes, including blocksize / format bps allignment,
better 24bit seeking (mplayer, others).
* Improve format chain building, it's now possible to record something
to a format non-native to the soundcard through various feeder format
converters or to higher sampling rate. This also gains another feature,
like doing vchan mixing on non s16le soundcard such as sb8.
- sound.c
* Increase robustness within various function that handle vchan
creation / termination (these function need a total rewrite, but
that would cause other major rewrite within various places too!).
As far as its robustness can be guaranteed, leave it as is.
* Optimize channel ordering, prefer *real* hardware playback
channels over virtual channels. cat /dev/sndstat should look
better.
* Increase sndstat verbosity to include bufsoft/bufhard allocation.
- vchan.c
* Fix LOR 119.
- http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/lor.html#119
* Reorder / increase robustness of vchan_create() / destroy().
Enforce destroy_dev() during destroy operation, fix possible
panic / dangling character device.
- http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-May/050308.html
* Tolerate a little bit more during mixing process, this should help
non s16le soundcards.
Note: Recoring in a non-native rate/format may result in overruns. A friendly
application is wavrec from audio/wavplay. The problem is under
investigation.
Submitted by: Ariff Abdullah <skywizard@MyBSD.org.my>
1. Support wide range sampling rate, as low as 1hz up to int32 max
(which is, insane) through new feeder_rate, multiple precisions
choice (32/64 bit converter). This is indeed, quite insane, but it
does give us more room and flexibility. Plenty sysctl options to
adjust resampling characteristics.
2. Support 24/32 bit pcm format conversion through new, much improved,
simplified and optimized feeder_fmt.
Changes:
1. buffer.c / dsp.c / sound.h
* Support for 24/32 AFMT.
2. feeder_rate.c
* New implementation of sampling rate conversion with 32/64 bit
precision, 1 - int32max hz (which is, ridiculous, yet very
addictive). Much improved / smarter buffer management to not
cause any missing samples at the end of conversion process
* Tunable sysctls for various aspect:
hw.snd.feeder_rate_ratemin - minimum allowable sampling rate
(default to 4000)
hw.snd.feeder_rate_ratemax - maximum allowable sampling rate
(default to 1102500)
hw.snd.feeder_rate_buffersize - conversion buffer size
(default to 8192)
hw.snd.feeder_rate_scaling - scaling / conversion method
(please refer to the source for explaination). Default to
previous implementation type.
3. feeder_fmt.c / sound.h
* New implementation, support for 24/32bit conversion, optimized,
and simplified. Few routines has been removed (8 to xlaw, 16 to
8). It just doesn't make sense.
4. channel.c
* Support for 24/32 AFMT
* Fix wrong xruns increment, causing incorrect underruns statistic
while using vchans.
5. vchan.c
* Support for 24/32 AFMT
* Proper speed / rate detection especially for fixed rate ac97.
User can override it using kernel hint:
hint.pcm.<unit>.vchanrate="xxxx".
Notes / Issues:
* Virtual Channels (vchans)
Enabling vchans can really, really help to solve overrun
issues. This is quite understandable, because it operates
entirely within its own buffering system without relying on
hardware interrupt / state. Even if you don't need vchan,
just enable single channel can help much. Few soundcards
(notably via8233x, sblive, possibly others) have their own
hardware multi channel, and this is unfortunately beyond
vchan reachability.
* The arrival of 24/32 also come with a price. Applications
that can do 24/32bit playback need to be recompiled (notably
mplayer). Use (recompiled) mplayer to experiment / test /
debug this various format using -af format=fmt. Note that
24bit seeking in mplayer is a little bit broken, sometimes
can cause silence or loud static noise. Pausing / seeking
few times can solve this problem.
You don't have to rebuild world entirely for this. Simply
copy /usr/src/sys/sys/soundcard.h to
/usr/include/sys/soundcard.h would suffice. Few drivers also
need recompilation, and this can be done via
/usr/src/sys/modules/sound/.
Support for 24bit hardware playback is beyond the scope of
this changes. That would require spessific hardware driver
changes.
* Don't expect playing 9999999999hz is a wise decision. Be
reasonable. The new feeder_rate implemention provide
flexibility, not insanity. You can easily chew up your CPU
with this kind of mind instability. Please use proper
mosquito repellent device for this obvious cracked brain
attempt. As for testing purposes, you can use (again)
mplayer to generate / play with different sampling rate. Use
something like "mplayer -af resample=192000:0:0 <files>".
Submitted by: Ariff Abdullah <skywizard@MyBSD.org.my>
Tested by: multimedia@
panic() so that the buffer overflow just beyond this point is always
caught, even when the code is not compiled with INVARIANTS.
Change chn_setblocksize() buffer reallocation code to attempt to avoid
the feed_vchan16() buffer overflow by attempting to always keep the
bufsoft buffer at least as large as the bufhard buffer.
Print a diagnositic message
Danger! %s bufsoft size increasing from %d to %d after CHANNEL_SETBLOCKSIZE()
if our best attempts fail. If feed_vchan16() were to be called by
the interrupt handler while locks are dropped in chn_setblocksize()
to increase the size bufsoft to match the size of bufhard, the panic()
code in feed_vchan16() will be triggered. If the diagnostic message
is printed, it is a warning that a panic is possible if the system
were to see events in an "unlucky" order.
Change the locking code to avoid the need for MTX_RECURSIVE mutexes.
Add the MTX_DUPOK option to the channel mutexes and change the locking
sequence to always lock the parent channel before its children to avoid
the possibility of deadlock.
Actually implement locking assertions for the channel mutexes and fix
the problems found by the resulting assertion violations.
Clean up the locking code in dsp_ioctl().
Allocate the channel buffers using the malloc() M_WAITOK option instead
of M_NOWAIT so that buffer allocation won't fail. Drop locks across
the malloc() calls.
Add/modify KASSERTS() in attempt to detect problems early.
Abuse layering by adding a pointer to the snd_dbuf structure that points
back to the pcm_channel that owns it. This allows sndbuf_resize() to do
proper locking without having to change the its API, which is used by
the hardware drivers.
Don't dereference a NULL pointer when setting hw.snd.maxautovchans
if a hardware driver is not loaded. Noticed by Ryan Sommers
<ryans at gamersimpact.com>.
Tested by: Stefan Ehmann <shoesoft AT gmx.net>
Tested by: matk (Mathew Kanner)
Tested by: Gordon Bergling <gbergling AT 0xfce3.net>
This takes us a lot closer to refcounting dev_t.
This patch originally by cg@ with a few minor changes by me.
It is largely untested, but has been HEADSUP'ed twice, so presumably
people have not found any issues with it.
Submitted by: cg@
* add new channels to the end of the list so channels used in order of
addition
* de-globalise definition of struct snddev_info and provide accessor
functions where necessary.
* move the $FreeBSD$ tag in each .c file into a macro and allow the
/dev/sndstat handler to display these when set to maximum verbosity to aid
debugging.
* allow each device to register its own sndstat handler to reduce the amount
of groping sndstat must do in foreign structs.
if a device has vchans already but they are all busy, allocate another one
at open() time, up to a maximum of hw.snd.maxvchans.
when creating/destroying vchans, don't make/remove a devnode for the
first/last one as it replaces a hardchan.
instead of using two malloced arrays for storing channel lists, use an
slist. convert the sndstat device to use sbufs and optionally provide more
detail about channel state.
vchans are software mixed playback channels. they are not enabled by this
commit. they use the feeder infrastructure to emulate normal playback
channels in a manner transparent to applications, whilst providing as many
channels are desired, especially suitable for devices with only one hardware
playback channel. in the future they will provide additional features.
those wishing to test this functionality will need to add vchan.c to
sys/conf/files and use 'sysctl -w hw.snd.pcm0.vchans' to enable it.
blocksize and auto-rate selection are not yet supported.
