ALSA: core: add hooks for audio timestamps
ALSA did not provide any direct means to infer the audio time for A/V
sync and system/audio time correlations (eg. PulseAudio).
Applications had to track the number of samples read/written and
add/subtract the number of samples queued in the ring buffer. This
accounting led to small errors, typically several samples, due to the
two-step process. Computing the audio time in the kernel is more
direct, as all the information is available in the same routines.
Also add new .audio_wallclock routine to enable fine-grain synchronization
between monotonic system time and audio hardware time.
Using the wallclock, if supported in hardware, allows for a
much better sub-microsecond precision and a common drift tracking for
all devices sharing the same wall clock (master clock).
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
diff --git a/include/sound/pcm.h b/include/sound/pcm.h
index 28fd9f95..45c1981 100644
--- a/include/sound/pcm.h
+++ b/include/sound/pcm.h
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@
int (*prepare)(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream);
int (*trigger)(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, int cmd);
snd_pcm_uframes_t (*pointer)(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream);
+ int (*wall_clock)(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
+ struct timespec *audio_ts);
int (*copy)(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, int channel,
snd_pcm_uframes_t pos,
void __user *buf, snd_pcm_uframes_t count);