Re: [PATCH 01/13] ASoC: soc-pcm: Don't reconnect an already active BE

[Sameer Pujar <spujar@nvidia.com>]

On 10/1/2021 12:30 AM, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
>> 1. The original issue at my end was not just a configuration redundancy.
>> I realize now that with more stream addition following error print is seen.
>>     "ASoC: too many users playback at open 4"
>>
>>     This is because the max DPCM users is capped at 8. Increasing this
>> may help (need to see what number is better), but does not address the
>> redundancy problem.
> Going back to this DPCM_MAX_BE_USERS definition, it seems rather
> arbitrary and not so useful indeed.

>          /* first time the dpcm is open ? */
>          if (be->dpcm[stream].users == DPCM_MAX_BE_USERS) {
>                  dev_err(be->dev, "ASoC: too many users %s at open %d\n",
>                          stream ? "capture" : "playback",
>                          be->dpcm[stream].state);
>                  continue;
>          }
>
> The comment is no longer aligned with the code, wondering if this is a
> feature or a bug.

Looks like the comment is misplaced and the intention might have been to 
place it like below?

diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-pcm.c b/sound/soc/soc-pcm.c
index e30cb5a..5cb5019 100644
--- a/sound/soc/soc-pcm.c
+++ b/sound/soc/soc-pcm.c
@@ -1508,7 +1508,6 @@ int dpcm_be_dai_startup(struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime 
*fe, int stream)
                 if (!snd_soc_dpcm_be_can_update(fe, be, stream))
                         continue;

-               /* first time the dpcm is open ? */
                 if (be->dpcm[stream].users == DPCM_MAX_BE_USERS) {
                         dev_err(be->dev, "ASoC: too many users %s at 
open %d\n",
                                 stream ? "capture" : "playback",
@@ -1516,6 +1515,7 @@ int dpcm_be_dai_startup(struct snd_soc_pcm_runtime 
*fe, int stream)
                         continue;
                 }

+               /* first time the dpcm is open ? */
                 if (be->dpcm[stream].users++ != 0)
                         continue;

>   There's no reason to arbitrarily restrict the number
> of users of a BE, or the check would need to use platform-specific
> information such as the number of inputs/outputs supported by a mixer/demux.
>
> Maybe Morimoto-san can comment since this was added in:
>
> 1db19c151819 ('ASoC: soc-pcm: fixup dpcm_be_dai_startup() user count')
>
> We're not done with soc-pcm.c cleanups :-)