linux-6.4 alsa sound broken

From: Jeff Chua
Date: Mon May 01 2023 - 00:02:45 EST


Latest git pull from Linus's tree ... playing a simple sound file will
resulted in a lot of echo.

Running on Lenovo X1 with ..
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Alder Lake PCH-P High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

I've bisected and reverted the following patch fixed the problem.

My best,
Jeff

commit 9f656705c5faa18afb26d922cfc64f9fd103c38d
Author: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu Apr 20 13:33:23 2023 +0200

ALSA: pcm: rewrite snd_pcm_playback_silence()

The auto-silencer supports two modes: "thresholded" to fill up "just
enough", and "top-up" to fill up "as much as possible". The two modes
used rather distinct code paths, which this patch unifies. The only
remaining distinction is how much we actually want to fill.

This fixes a bug in thresholded mode, where we failed to use new_hw_ptr,
resulting in under-fill.

Top-up mode is now more well-behaved and much easier to understand in
corner cases.

This also updates comments in the proximity of silencing-related data
structures.

Signed-off-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230420113324.877164-1-oswald.buddenhagen@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>