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From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] ASoC: core: Print one-time messages if missing resources when binding DAIs
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:39:00 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31474093-6389-629a-73f0-d60cc8d15d3c@osg.samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161024172121.GF17252@sirena.org.uk>

Hello Mark,

On 10/24/2016 02:21 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 02:21:05PM -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> If snd_soc_find_dai() doesn't find a DAI in soc_bind_dai_link(), a
>> error message is printed and an -EPROBE_DEFER errno code returned to
>> the caller.
> 
>> But since many probe retries can happen before a resource is available,
>> the printed messages can spam the kernel log buffer and slow the boot.
> 
>> The information is useful to know that a dependency was not meet and a
>> defer happened, but isn't necessary to print it on each probe deferral.
> 
> This then turns any subsequent failure into a silent one which isn't
> great for diagnostics.  It'd be better to look into trying to avoid the
> retries in the first place, Raphael's dependency graph stuff looks very
> promising here.
>

Ok, thanks for your feedback. I'll also investigate why the number of
probes/retries increased that much from v4.8.

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-24 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-19 17:21 [RFC PATCH 0/2] ASoC: Prevent the snow ASoC driver to spam due probe deferrals Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-10-19 17:21 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] ASoC: core: Print one-time messages if missing resources when binding DAIs Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-10-24 17:21   ` Mark Brown
2016-10-24 18:39     ` Javier Martinez Canillas [this message]
2016-10-19 17:21 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] ASoC: samsung: Print a one-time message if the snow driver's probe defers Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-10-19 18:12   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2016-10-19 18:16     ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-10-20  9:12   ` [alsa-devel] " Sylwester Nawrocki
2016-10-20 10:41     ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-10-20 11:27       ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2016-10-20 11:37         ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-10-27 15:38         ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2016-10-27 15:48           ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2016-10-27 15:51             ` Javier Martinez Canillas

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