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Date:   Mon, 01 Mar 2021 14:33:09 +0100
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From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To:     Anton Yakovlev <anton.yakovlev@opensynergy.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 6/9] ALSA: virtio: PCM substream operators
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On Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:29:24 +0100,
Anton Yakovlev wrote:
> 
> On 28.02.2021 12:32, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 09:59:53 +0100,
> > Anton Yakovlev wrote:
> >>
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 
> >> +static snd_pcm_uframes_t
> >> +virtsnd_pcm_pointer(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream)
> >> +{
> >> +     struct virtio_pcm_substream *vss = snd_pcm_substream_chip(substream);
> >> +     snd_pcm_uframes_t hw_ptr = SNDRV_PCM_POS_XRUN;
> >> +     unsigned long flags;
> >> +
> >> +     spin_lock_irqsave(&vss->lock, flags);
> >> +     if (!vss->xfer_xrun)
> >> +             hw_ptr = bytes_to_frames(substream->runtime, vss->hw_ptr);
> >> +     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vss->lock, flags);
> >
> > Oh, and if we drop nonatomc PCM, both trigger and pointer callbacks
> > are guaranteed to be called inside the spinlock, hence you can remove
> > *_irqsave() but just us spin_lock() in those two callbacks.
> 
> As I understand, spin_lock_irqsave() disables only local interrupts. But
> what about other CPU cores?

Those are already under spin_lock_irqsave() of the PCM substream
lock (in the case of normal PCM operation without nonatomic flag).


Takashi