Update the documentation about the PCM copy callbacks.
The update was kept minimalistic, just correcting the use of copy_user
ops with the single copy ops, and drop/update the text mentioning the
copy_kernel.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
---
.../kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst | 58 ++++++-------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst b/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst
index 4335c98b3d82..cd421856409e 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst
+++ b/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst
@@ -2018,8 +2018,8 @@ sleeping poll threads, etc.
This callback is also atomic by default.
-copy_user, copy_kernel and fill_silence ops
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+copy and fill_silence ops
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
These callbacks are not mandatory, and can be omitted in most cases.
These callbacks are used when the hardware buffer cannot be in the
@@ -3444,8 +3444,8 @@ external hardware buffer in interrupts (or in tasklets, preferably).
The first case works fine if the external hardware buffer is large
enough. This method doesn't need any extra buffers and thus is more
-efficient. You need to define the ``copy_user`` and ``copy_kernel``
-callbacks for the data transfer, in addition to the ``fill_silence``
+efficient. You need to define the ``copy`` callback
+for the data transfer, in addition to the ``fill_silence``
callback for playback. However, there is a drawback: it cannot be
mmapped. The examples are GUS's GF1 PCM or emu8000's wavetable PCM.
@@ -3458,22 +3458,22 @@ Another case is when the chip uses a PCI memory-map region for the
buffer instead of the host memory. In this case, mmap is available only
on certain architectures like the Intel one. In non-mmap mode, the data
cannot be transferred as in the normal way. Thus you need to define the
-``copy_user``, ``copy_kernel`` and ``fill_silence`` callbacks as well,
+``copy`` and ``fill_silence`` callbacks as well,
as in the cases above. Examples are found in ``rme32.c`` and
``rme96.c``.
-The implementation of the ``copy_user``, ``copy_kernel`` and
+The implementation of the ``copy`` and
``silence`` callbacks depends upon whether the hardware supports
-interleaved or non-interleaved samples. The ``copy_user`` callback is
+interleaved or non-interleaved samples. The ``copy`` callback is
defined like below, a bit differently depending on whether the direction
is playback or capture::
- static int playback_copy_user(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
+ static int playback_copy(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
int channel, unsigned long pos,
- void __user *src, unsigned long count);
- static int capture_copy_user(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
+ struct iov_iter *src, unsigned long count);
+ static int capture_copy(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
int channel, unsigned long pos,
- void __user *dst, unsigned long count);
+ struct iov_iter *dst, unsigned long count);
In the case of interleaved samples, the second argument (``channel``) is
not used. The third argument (``pos``) specifies the position in bytes.
@@ -3490,18 +3490,17 @@ of data (``count``) at the specified pointer (``src``) to the specified
offset (``pos``) in the hardware buffer. When coded like memcpy-like
way, the copy would look like::
- my_memcpy_from_user(my_buffer + pos, src, count);
+ my_memcpy_from_iter(my_buffer + pos, src, count);
For the capture direction, you copy the given amount of data (``count``)
at the specified offset (``pos``) in the hardware buffer to the
specified pointer (``dst``)::
- my_memcpy_to_user(dst, my_buffer + pos, count);
+ my_memcpy_to_iter(dst, my_buffer + pos, count);
-Here the functions are named ``from_user`` and ``to_user`` because
-it's the user-space buffer that is passed to these callbacks. That
-is, the callback is supposed to copy data from/to the user-space
-directly to/from the hardware buffer.
+The given ``src`` or ``dst`` a struct iov_iter pointer containing the
+pointer and the size. Use the existing helpers to copy or access the
+data as defined in ``linux/uio.h``.
Careful readers might notice that these callbacks receive the
arguments in bytes, not in frames like other callbacks. It's because
@@ -3519,25 +3518,6 @@ the given user-space buffer, but only for the given channel. For
details, please check ``isa/gus/gus_pcm.c`` or ``pci/rme9652/rme9652.c``
as examples.
-The above callbacks are the copies from/to the user-space buffer. There
-are some cases where we want to copy from/to the kernel-space buffer
-instead. In such a case, the ``copy_kernel`` callback is called. It'd
-look like::
-
- static int playback_copy_kernel(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
- int channel, unsigned long pos,
- void *src, unsigned long count);
- static int capture_copy_kernel(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
- int channel, unsigned long pos,
- void *dst, unsigned long count);
-
-As found easily, the only difference is that the buffer pointer is
-without a ``__user`` prefix; that is, a kernel-buffer pointer is passed
-in the fourth argument. Correspondingly, the implementation would be
-a version without the user-copy, such as::
-
- my_memcpy(my_buffer + pos, src, count);
-
Usually for the playback, another callback ``fill_silence`` is
defined. It's implemented in a similar way as the copy callbacks
above::
@@ -3545,10 +3525,10 @@ above::
static int silence(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, int channel,
unsigned long pos, unsigned long count);
-The meanings of arguments are the same as in the ``copy_user`` and
-``copy_kernel`` callbacks, although there is no buffer pointer
+The meanings of arguments are the same as in the ``copy`` callback,
+although there is no buffer pointer
argument. In the case of interleaved samples, the channel argument has
-no meaning, as for the ``copy_*`` callbacks.
+no meaning, as for the ``copy`` callback.
The role of the ``fill_silence`` callback is to set the given amount
(``count``) of silence data at the specified offset (``pos``) in the
--
2.35.3