ALSA: Add SoC on-chip internal ram support for DMA buffer allocation

Now it's quite common that an SoC contains its on-chip internal RAM.
By using this RAM space for DMA buffer during au

ALSA: Add SoC on-chip internal ram support for DMA buffer allocation

Now it's quite common that an SoC contains its on-chip internal RAM.
By using this RAM space for DMA buffer during audio playback/record,
we can shutdown the voltage for external RAM to save power.

So add new DEV type with iram malloc()/free() and accordingly modify
current default mmap() for the iram circumstance.

Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <b42378@freescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

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ALSA: Force a cast to silence a warning from "sparse"

Some audio drivers are calling snd_dma_continuous_data(GFP_KERNEL)
which makes "sparse" give a warning:

$ make C=2 M=soun

ALSA: Force a cast to silence a warning from "sparse"

Some audio drivers are calling snd_dma_continuous_data(GFP_KERNEL)
which makes "sparse" give a warning:

$ make C=2 M=sound/usb modules
...
sound/usb/6fire/pcm.c:625:25: warning: cast from restricted gfp_t
sound/usb/caiaq/audio.c:845:41: warning: cast from restricted gfp_t
sound/usb/usx2y/usbusx2yaudio.c:997:54: warning: cast from restricted gfp_t
sound/usb/usx2y/usbusx2yaudio.c:1001:54: warning: cast from restricted gfp_t
sound/usb/usx2y/usx2yhwdeppcm.c:774:54: warning: cast from restricted gfp_t
sound/usb/usx2y/usx2yhwdeppcm.c:778:54: warning: cast from restricted gfp_t

Add __force to the cast to silence the warning.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ao2@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

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ALSA: Make snd_sgbuf_get_{ptr|addr}() available for non-SG cases

Passing struct snd_dma_buffer pointer instead, so that they work no
matter whether real SG buffer is used or not.

ALSA: Make snd_sgbuf_get_{ptr|addr}() available for non-SG cases

Passing struct snd_dma_buffer pointer instead, so that they work no
matter whether real SG buffer is used or not.

This is a preliminary work for the HD-audio DSP loader code.

Signed-off-by: Ian Minett <ian_minett@creativelabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

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ALSA: Fix SG-buffer DMA with non-coherent architectures

Using SG-buffers with dma_alloc_coherent() is often very inefficient
on non-coherent architectures because a tracking record could

ALSA: Fix SG-buffer DMA with non-coherent architectures

Using SG-buffers with dma_alloc_coherent() is often very inefficient
on non-coherent architectures because a tracking record could be
allocated in addition for each dma_alloc_coherent() call.
Instead, simply disable SG-buffers but just allocate normal continuous
buffers on non-supported (currently all but x86) architectures.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

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Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

sound/core/memalloc.c

alsa: Remove special SBUS dma support code.

No longer used.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

ALSA: Allocate larger pages in sgbuf

Most hardwares have limited buffer-descriptor table length. This
also restricts the max buffer size of the sound driver.
For example, snd-hda-in

ALSA: Allocate larger pages in sgbuf

Most hardwares have limited buffer-descriptor table length. This
also restricts the max buffer size of the sound driver.
For example, snd-hda-intel has 1MB buffer size limit, and this is
because it can have at most 256 BDL entries. For supporting larger
buffers, we need to allocate larger pages even for sg-buffers.

This patch changes the sgbuf allocation code to try to allocate
larger pages first. At each head of the allocated pages, the
number of allocated pages is stored in the lowest bits of the
corresponding entry of the table addr field. This change isn't
visible as long as the driver uses snd_sgbuf_get_addr() helper.

Also, the patch adds a new function, snd_pcm_sgbuf_get_chunk_size().
This returns the size of the chunk on continuous pages starting at
the given position offset. If the chunk reaches to a non-continuous
page, it returns the size to the boundary.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>

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ALSA: Clean up SG-buffer helper functions and macros

Clean up SG-buffer helper functions and macros. Helpers take substream
as arguments now.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai

ALSA: Clean up SG-buffer helper functions and macros

Clean up SG-buffer helper functions and macros. Helpers take substream
as arguments now.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>

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[ALSA] Changed Jaroslav Kysela's e-mail from perex@suse.cz to perex@perex.cz


Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>

[PATCH] gfp_t: sound

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

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