[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "ALSA: hda - Disable 64bit address for Creative HDA controllers" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ALSA: hda - Disable 64bit address for Creative HDA controllers

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt1.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:21:51 +0100
Subject: ALSA: hda - Disable 64bit address for Creative HDA controllers

commit cadd16ea33a938d49aee99edd4758cc76048b399 upstream.

We've had many reports that some Creative sound cards with CA0132
don't work well.  Some reported that it starts working after reloading
the module, while some reported it starts working when a 32bit kernel
is used.  All these facts seem implying that the chip fails to
communicate when the buffer is located in 64bit address.

This patch addresses these issues by just adding AZX_DCAPS_NO_64BIT
flag to the corresponding PCI entries.  I casually had a chance to
test an SB Recon3D board, and indeed this seems helping.

Although this hasn't been tested on all Creative devices, it's safer
to assume that this restriction applies to the rest of them, too.  So
the flag is applied to all Creative entries.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
index c38c68f..61b8b75a 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
@@ -334,6 +334,7 @@ enum {

 #define AZX_DCAPS_PRESET_CTHDA \
 	(AZX_DCAPS_NO_MSI | AZX_DCAPS_POSFIX_LPIB |\
+	 AZX_DCAPS_NO_64BIT |\
 	 AZX_DCAPS_4K_BDLE_BOUNDARY | AZX_DCAPS_SNOOP_OFF)

 /*
@@ -2284,11 +2285,13 @@ static const struct pci_device_id azx_ids[] = {
 	  .class = PCI_CLASS_MULTIMEDIA_HD_AUDIO << 8,
 	  .class_mask = 0xffffff,
 	  .driver_data = AZX_DRIVER_CTX | AZX_DCAPS_CTX_WORKAROUND |
+	  AZX_DCAPS_NO_64BIT |
 	  AZX_DCAPS_RIRB_PRE_DELAY | AZX_DCAPS_POSFIX_LPIB },
 #else
 	/* this entry seems still valid -- i.e. without emu20kx chip */
 	{ PCI_DEVICE(0x1102, 0x0009),
 	  .driver_data = AZX_DRIVER_CTX | AZX_DCAPS_CTX_WORKAROUND |
+	  AZX_DCAPS_NO_64BIT |
 	  AZX_DCAPS_RIRB_PRE_DELAY | AZX_DCAPS_POSFIX_LPIB },
 #endif
 	/* CM8888 */
--
1.9.1