[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] alsa-card: improve the profile availability logic

Tanu Kaskinen tanuk at iki.fi
Sun Oct 29 19:49:26 UTC 2017


On Fri, 2017-10-27 at 21:39 +0200, Georg Chini wrote:
> On 21.09.2017 14:47, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > When a new card shows up (during pulseaudio startup or hotplugged),
> > pulseaudio needs to pick the initial profile for the card. Unavailable
> > profiles shouldn't be picked, but module-alsa-card sometimes marked
> > unavailable profiles as available, causing bad initial profile choices.
> > 
> > This patch changes module-alsa-card so that it marks all profiles
> > unavailable whose all output ports or all input ports are unavailable.
> > Previously only those profiles were marked as unavailable whose all
> > ports were unavailable. For example, if a profile contains one sink and
> > one source, and the sink is unavailable and the source is available,
> > previously such profile was marked as available, but now it's marked as
> > unavailable.
> > 
> > BugLink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102902
> > ---
> >   src/modules/alsa/module-alsa-card.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> >   1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/modules/alsa/module-alsa-card.c b/src/modules/alsa/module-alsa-card.c
> > index 4f1236ecd..2adfa6d7b 100644
> > --- a/src/modules/alsa/module-alsa-card.c
> > +++ b/src/modules/alsa/module-alsa-card.c
> > @@ -427,29 +427,71 @@ static int report_jack_state(snd_mixer_elem_t *melem, unsigned int mask) {
> >           if (tp->avail == PA_AVAILABLE_NO)
> >              pa_device_port_set_available(tp->port, tp->avail);
> >   
> > -    /* Update profile availabilities. The logic could be improved; for now we
> > -     * only set obviously unavailable profiles (those that contain only
> > -     * unavailable ports) to PA_AVAILABLE_NO and all others to
> > -     * PA_AVAILABLE_UNKNOWN. */
> > +    /* Update profile availabilities. Ideally we would mark all profiles
> > +     * unavailable that contain unavailable devices. We can't currently do that
> > +     * in all cases, because if there are multiple sinks in a profile, and the
> > +     * profile contains a mix of available and unavailable ports, we don't know
> > +     * how the ports are distributed between the different sinks. It's possible
> > +     * that some sinks contain only unavailable ports, in which case we should
> > +     * mark the profile as unavailable, but it's also possible that all sinks
> > +     * contain at least one available port, in which case we should mark the
> > +     * profile as available. Until the data structures are improved so that we
> > +     * can distinguish between these two cases, we mark the problematic cases
> > +     * as available (well, "unknown" to be precise, but there's little
> > +     * practical difference).
> > +     *
> > +     * When all output ports are unavailable, we know that all sinks are
> > +     * unavailable, and therefore the profile is marked unavailable as well.
> > +     * The same applies to input ports as well, of course.
> > +     *
> > +     * If there are no output ports at all, but the profile contains at least
> > +     * one sink, then the output is considered to be available. */
> >       PA_HASHMAP_FOREACH(profile, u->card->profiles, state) {
> >           pa_device_port *port;
> >           void *state2;
> > -        pa_available_t available = PA_AVAILABLE_NO;
> > +        bool all_output_ports_are_unavailable = false;
> > +        bool all_input_ports_are_unavailable = false;
> > +        pa_available_t available = PA_AVAILABLE_UNKNOWN;
> >   
> > -        /* Don't touch the "off" profile. */
> > -        if (profile->n_sources == 0 && profile->n_sinks == 0)
> > -            continue;
> > +        /* Check if all output ports are unavailable. */
> > +        PA_HASHMAP_FOREACH(port, u->card->ports, state2) {
> > +            if (port->direction != PA_DIRECTION_OUTPUT)
> > +                continue;
> > +
> > +            if (!pa_hashmap_get(port->profiles, profile->name))
> > +                continue;
> >   
> > +            if (port->available == PA_AVAILABLE_NO)
> > +                all_output_ports_are_unavailable = true;
> > +            else {
> > +                all_output_ports_are_unavailable = false;
> > +                break;
> > +            }
> > +        }
> > +
> > +        /* Check if all input ports are unavailable. */
> >           PA_HASHMAP_FOREACH(port, u->card->ports, state2) {
> > +            if (port->direction != PA_DIRECTION_INPUT)
> > +                continue;
> > +
> >               if (!pa_hashmap_get(port->profiles, profile->name))
> >                   continue;
> >   
> > -            if (port->available != PA_AVAILABLE_NO) {
> > -                available = PA_AVAILABLE_UNKNOWN;
> > +            if (port->available == PA_AVAILABLE_NO)
> > +                all_input_ports_are_unavailable = true;
> > +            else {
> > +                all_input_ports_are_unavailable = false;
> >                   break;
> >               }
> >           }
> >   
> > +        if (all_output_ports_are_unavailable || all_input_ports_are_unavailable)
> > +            available = PA_AVAILABLE_NO;
> > +
> > +        /* The "off" profile is always available. */
> > +        if (profile->n_sources == 0 && profile->n_sinks == 0)
> > +            available = PA_AVAILABLE_YES;
> 
> The extra check for the "off" profile is unnecessary, it has no ports and
> will therefore be marked as available (or rather as UNKNOWN).

I think it's good to set the availability to yes when we know that the
profile is definitely available. But I'll remove this anyway, since
there's no real practical difference.

> > +
> >           pa_card_profile_set_available(profile, available);
> >       }
> >   
> 
> Otherwise in general OK, but would it not be clearer to use one loop 
> like this:
> 
>           has_input_port = false;
>           has_output_port = false;
>           found_available_input_port = false;
>           found_available_output_port = false;
>           PA_HASHMAP_FOREACH(port, u->card->ports, state2) {
> 
>              if (!pa_hashmap_get(port->profiles, profile->name))
>                  continue;
> 
>              if (port->direction == PA_DIRECTION_INPUT) {
>                  has_input_port = true;
>                  if (port->available != PA_AVAILABLE_NO)
>                      found_available_input_port = true;
>              }
> 
>              if (port->direction == PA_DIRECTION_OUTPUT) {
>                  has_output_port = true;
>                  if (port->available != PA_AVAILABLE_NO)
>                      found_available_input_port = true;
>              }
>          }
> 
> 
> If you prefer to leave it as is, I don't have objections though.

I strongly prefer your way.

Thanks for the review!

-- 
Tanu

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