Re: [regression, 5.10.y] Bug 216861 - sound disappearance on Acer Swift 3 SF314-59-78UR after update to 5.10.157

From: PÁLFFY Dániel
Date: Tue Jan 03 2023 - 08:05:06 EST


And confirming, 5.10.161 with e8444560b4d9302a511f0996f4cfdf85b628f4ca
and 636110411ca726f19ef8e87b0be51bb9a4cdef06 cherry-picked works for
me.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 1:05 PM PÁLFFY Dániel <dpalffy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Another report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/76795
> Apparently, folks at alsa-devel traced down the dependencies of that patch, see the mail thread at https://lore.kernel.org/all/dc65501c-c2fd-5608-c3d9-7cea184c3989%40opensource.cirrus.com/
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 1:42 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 02 Jan 2023 11:43:36 +0100,
>> Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > [Adding as well Richard Fitzgerald and PÁLFFY Dániel to recipients]
>> >
>> > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 09:08:57AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> > > Hi, this is your Linux kernel regression tracker speaking.
>> > >
>> > > I noticed a regression report in bugzilla.kernel.org. As many (most?)
>> > > kernel developer don't keep an eye on it, I decided to forward it by
>> > > mail. Quoting from https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216861 :
>> > >
>> > > > Sergey 2022-12-29 10:07:51 UTC
>> > > >
>> > > > Created attachment 303497 [details]
>> > > > pulseaudio.log
>> > > >
>> > > > Sudden sound disappearance was reported for some laptops, e.g.
>> > > >
>> > > > Acer Swift 3 SF314-59-78UR 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
>> > > >
>> > > > # lspci
>> > > > 0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 20)
>> > > > Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 148c
>> > > > Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 197, IOMMU group 12
>> > > > Memory at 601f270000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>> > > > Memory at 601f000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
>> > > > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
>> > > > Capabilities: [80] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
>> > > > Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
>> > > > Kernel driver in use: sof-audio-pci
>> > > >
>> > > > I am attaching the pulseaudio and dmesg logs
>> > > >
>> > > > This bug started reproducing after updating the kernel from 5.10.156 to 5.10.157
>> > > >
>> > > > Bisection revealed the commit being reverted:
>> > > >
>> > > > c34db0d6b88b1da95e7ab3353e674f4f574cccee is the first bad commit
>> > > > commit c34db0d6b88b1da95e7ab3353e674f4f574cccee
>> > > > Author: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > > > Date: Fri Nov 4 13:22:13 2022 +0000
>> > > >
>> > > > ASoC: soc-pcm: Don't zero TDM masks in __soc_pcm_open()
>> > > >
>> > > > [ Upstream commit 39bd801d6908900e9ab0cdc2655150f95ddd4f1a ]
>> > > >
>> > > > The DAI tx_mask and rx_mask are set by snd_soc_dai_set_tdm_slot()
>> > > > and used by later code that depends on the TDM settings. So
>> > > > __soc_pcm_open() should not be obliterating those mask values.
>> > > >
>> > > > [...]
>> > > > Original bug report: https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/44690
>> > >
>> > > See the ticket for more details.
>> > >
>> > > BTW, let me use this mail to also add the report to the list of tracked
>> > > regressions to ensure it's doesn't fall through the cracks:
>> > >
>> > > #regzbot introduced: c34db0d6b88b1d
>> > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216861
>> > > #regzbot title: sound: asoc: sudden sound disappearance
>> > > #regzbot ignore-activity
>> >
>> > FWIW, we had as well reports in Debian after having updated the kernel
>> > from 5.10.149 based one to 5.10.158 based one in the last point
>> > releases, they are at least:
>> >
>> > https://bugs.debian.org/1027483
>> > https://bugs.debian.org/1027430
>>
>> I got another report while the commit was backported to 5.14-based
>> openSUSE Leap kernel, and I ended up with dropping it.
>>
>> So, IMO, it's safer to drop this patch from the older stable trees.
>> As far as I see, 5.15.y and 5.10.y got this.
>>
>> Unless anyone gives a better fix, I'm going to submit a revert patch
>> for those trees.
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Takashi