Re: [PATCH v4 27/32] sound: soc: qdsp6: Add SND kcontrol to select offload device

[Wesley Cheng]

Hi Pierre,

On 7/25/2023 2:16 AM, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> On 7/25/23 04:34, Wesley Cheng wrote:
> > Expose a kcontrol on the platform sound card, which will allow for
> > userspace to determine which USB card number and PCM device to offload.
> > This allows for userspace to potentially tag an alternate path for a
> > specific USB SND card and PCM device.  Previously, control was absent, and
> > the offload path would be enabled on the last USB SND device which was
> > connected.  This logic will continue to be applicable if no mixer input is
> > received for specific device selection.
> >
> > An example to configure the offload device using tinymix:
> > tinymix -D 0 set 'Q6USB offload SND device select' 1 0
> >
> > The above will set the Q6AFE device token to choose offload on card#1 and
> > pcm#0.  Device selection is made possible by setting the Q6AFE device
> > token.  The audio DSP utilizes this parameter, and will pass this field
> > back to the USB offload driver within the QMI stream requests.
>
> I must be missing something... If you have a card 0 which exposes a
> control to change what the card1 does, then it means you have a card0
> with a PCM device what can potentially be used concurrently with the
> card1 exposing an offload device.
>
> Is there any sort of mutual exclusion to make sure the same USB endpoint
> is not used twice?
> > One would hope that when a device is opened the matching non-offloaded
> one (or ones in the case of implicit feedback) is disabled or marked as
> used?
>
> I would guess in your Android setup you have control on such behavior at
> the HAL level, but in the more generic Linux use I don't see what
> would orchestrate the use of two devices, and at the kernel level what
> would prevent it.
Still going through the comments and trying to address the suggestions 
in the code, so will reply pack to those as I make the needed changes.

As for the above question, the following change was made with the 
intention to prevent the above scenario.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/20230725023416.11205-23-quic_wcheng@xxxxxxxxxxx/

Thanks
Wesley Cheng