ALSA: add new 32-bit layout for snd_pcm_mmap_status/control
The snd_pcm_mmap_status and snd_pcm_mmap_control interfaces are one of the trickiest areas to get right when moving to 64-bit time_t in user space. The snd_pcm_mmap_status structure layout is incompatible with user space that uses a 64-bit time_t, so we need a new layout for it. Since the SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_SYNC_PTR ioctl combines it with snd_pcm_mmap_control into snd_pcm_sync_ptr, we need to change those two as well. Both structures are also exported via an mmap() operation on certain architectures, and this suffers from incompatibility between 32-bit and 64-bit user space. As we have to change both structures anyway, this is a good opportunity to fix the mmap() problem as well, so let's standardize on the existing 64-bit layout of the structure where possible. The downside is that we lose mmap() support for existing 32-bit x86 and powerpc applications, adding that would introduce very noticeable runtime overhead and complexity. My assumption here is that not too many people will miss the removed feature, given that: - Almost all x86 and powerpc users these days are on 64-bit kernels, the majority of today's 32-bit users are on architectures that never supported mmap (ARM, MIPS, ...). - It never worked in compat mode (it was intentionally disabled there) - The application already needs to work with a fallback to SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_SYNC_PTR, which will keep working with both the old and new structure layout. Both the ioctl() and mmap() based interfaces are changed at the same time, as they are based on the same structures. Unlike other interfaces, we change the uapi header to export both the traditional structure and a version that is portable between 32-bit and 64-bit user space code and that corresponds to the existing 64-bit layout. We further check the __USE_TIME_BITS64 macro that will be defined by future C library versions whenever we use the new time_t definition, so any existing user space source code will not see any changes until it gets rebuilt against a new C library. However, the new structures are all visible in addition to the old ones, allowing applications to explicitly request the new structures. In order to detect the difference between the old snd_pcm_mmap_status and the new __snd_pcm_mmap_status64 structure from the ioctl command number, we rely on one quirk in the structure definition: snd_pcm_mmap_status must be aligned to alignof(time_t), which leads the compiler to insert four bytes of padding in struct snd_pcm_sync_ptr after 'flags' and a corresponding change in the size of snd_pcm_sync_ptr itself. On x86-32 (and only there), the compiler doesn't use 64-bit alignment in structure, so I'm adding an explicit pad in the structure that has no effect on the existing 64-bit architectures but ensures that the layout matches for x86. The snd_pcm_uframes_t type compatibility requires another hack: we can't easily make that 64 bit wide, so I leave the type as 'unsigned long', but add padding before and after it, to ensure that the data is properly aligned to the respective 64-bit field in the in-kernel structure. For the SNDRV_PCM_MMAP_OFFSET_STATUS/CONTROL constants that are used as the virtual file offset in the mmap() function, we also have to introduce new constants that depend on hte __USE_TIME_BITS64 macro: The existing macros are renamed to SNDRV_PCM_MMAP_OFFSET_STATUS_OLD and SNDRV_PCM_MMAP_OFFSET_CONTROL_OLD, they continue to work fine on 64-bit architectures, but stop working on native 32-bit user space. The replacement _NEW constants are now used by default for user space built with __USE_TIME_BITS64, those now work on all new kernels for x86, ppc and alpha (32 and 64 bit, native and compat). It might be a good idea for a future alsa-lib to support both the _OLD and _NEW macros and use the corresponding structures directly. Unmodified alsa-lib source code will retain the current behavior, so it will no longer be able to use mmap() for the status/control structures on 32-bit systems, until either the C library gets updated to 64-bit time_t or alsa-lib gets updated to support both mmap() layouts. Co-developed-with: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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