[patch 084/176] ALSA: hrtimer: handle delayed timer interrupts

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Feb 15 2011 - 19:49:44 EST


2.6.36-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit b1d4f7f4bdcf9915c41ff8cfc4425c84dabb1fde upstream.

If a timer interrupt was delayed too much, hrtimer_forward_now() will
forward the timer expiry more than once. When this happens, the
additional number of elapsed ALSA timer ticks must be passed to
snd_timer_interrupt() to prevent the ALSA timer from falling behind.

This mostly fixes MIDI slowdown problems on highly-loaded systems with
badly behaved interrupt handlers.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-and-tested-by: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
sound/core/hrtimer.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/core/hrtimer.c
+++ b/sound/core/hrtimer.c
@@ -45,12 +45,13 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart snd_hrtimer_
{
struct snd_hrtimer *stime = container_of(hrt, struct snd_hrtimer, hrt);
struct snd_timer *t = stime->timer;
+ unsigned long oruns;

if (!atomic_read(&stime->running))
return HRTIMER_NORESTART;

- hrtimer_forward_now(hrt, ns_to_ktime(t->sticks * resolution));
- snd_timer_interrupt(stime->timer, t->sticks);
+ oruns = hrtimer_forward_now(hrt, ns_to_ktime(t->sticks * resolution));
+ snd_timer_interrupt(stime->timer, t->sticks * oruns);

if (!atomic_read(&stime->running))
return HRTIMER_NORESTART;


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