ALSA: usb-audio: Allow non-vmalloc buffer for PCM buffers

Currently, USB-audio driver allocates the PCM buffer via vmalloc(), as
this serves merely as an intermediate buffer that is copied to each
URB transfer buffer.  This works well in general on x86, but on some
archs this may result in cache coherency issues when mmap is used.
OTOH, it works also on such arch unless mmap is used.

This patch is a step for mitigating the inconvenience; a new module
option "use_vmalloc" is provided so that user can choose to allocate
the DMA coherent buffer instead of the existing vmalloc buffer.
The drawback is that it'd be the standard dma_alloc_coherent() calls
and the system would require contiguous pages on non-x86 archs.

Note that it's a global option and not dynamically switchable since
the buffer is pre-allocated at the probe time.  In theory, it's
possible to be switchable, but it'd be trickier and racier.

As default use_vmalloc option is set to true, so that the old behavior
is kept.  For allowing the coherent mmap on ARM or MIPS, pass
use_vmalloc=0 option explicitly.

Reported-and-tested-by: Daniel Danzberger <daniel@dd-wrt.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sound/usb/usbaudio.h b/sound/usb/usbaudio.h
index 7b28cbde22c0..b9faeca645fd 100644
--- a/sound/usb/usbaudio.h
+++ b/sound/usb/usbaudio.h
@@ -127,4 +127,6 @@ struct snd_usb_audio_quirk {
 int snd_usb_lock_shutdown(struct snd_usb_audio *chip);
 void snd_usb_unlock_shutdown(struct snd_usb_audio *chip);
 
+extern bool snd_usb_use_vmalloc;
+
 #endif /* __USBAUDIO_H */