Re: [PATCH v6 9/9] ALSA: virtio: introduce device suspend/resume support

From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Anton Yakovlev <anton.yakovlev@opensynergy.com>
Cc: <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	<alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>, <virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 9/9] ALSA: virtio: introduce device suspend/resume support
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 07:48:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hwnuqgifa.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d4daea0-ed59-e84c-c28a-945c49204c83@opensynergy.com>

On Tue, 02 Mar 2021 07:29:20 +0100,
Anton Yakovlev wrote:
> 
> On 28.02.2021 13:05, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 09:59:56 +0100,
> > Anton Yakovlev wrote:
> >>
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >> --- a/sound/virtio/virtio_pcm.c
> >> +++ b/sound/virtio/virtio_pcm.c
> >> @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ static int virtsnd_pcm_build_hw(struct virtio_pcm_substream *vss,
> >>                SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BATCH |
> >>                SNDRV_PCM_INFO_BLOCK_TRANSFER |
> >>                SNDRV_PCM_INFO_INTERLEAVED |
> >> +             SNDRV_PCM_INFO_RESUME |
> >>                SNDRV_PCM_INFO_PAUSE;
> >
> > Actually you don't need to set SNDRV_PCM_INFO_RESUME.
> > This flag means that the driver supports the full resume procedure,
> > which isn't often the case; with this, the driver is supposed to
> > resume the stream exactly from the suspended position.
> >
> > Most drivers don't set this but implement only the suspend-stop
> > action.  Then the application (or the sound backend) will re-setup the
> > stream and restart accordingly.
> 
> I tried to resume driver without SNDRV_PCM_INFO_RESUME, and alsa-lib
> called only ops->prepare(). It makes sense for a typical hw, but we have
> "clean" unconfigured device on resume. And we must set hw parameters as
> a first step. It means, that code should be more or less the same. And
> maybe it's better to set SNDRV_PCM_INFO_RESUME, since it allows us to
> resume substream in any situation (regardless of application behavior).
> I can refactor code to only send requests from trigger(RESUME) path and
> not to call ops itself. It should make code more straitforward. What do
> you say?

How about calling hw_params(NULL) conditionally in the prepare?
Doing the full stack work in the trigger callback is bad from the API
design POV; in general the trigger callback is supposed to be as short
as possible.

Takashi