[wdmaudiodev] Re: MSVAD simple example plays wav file continuously under debugger
- From: Tim Roberts <timr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:04:56 -0800
Jan M wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
>> If so, how do you know it's repeating? Are you spewing any debug
>> information to the debugger?
>
> Yes. It repeats calls to CSaveData::WriteData() with calls to
> CSaveData::FileWrite() when the buffer is full.
> Under the debugger the output file (normally 41k bytes) grows to
> hundreds of K.
>
>> If you send a sound to the normal audio output device and then break in
>> the debugger, you will hear the last bufferful repeated forever. This
>> is just the way sound cards work. They have to be told to stop playing,
>> and while you're in the debugger, it can't process interrupts to know
>> that playing should stop. It's quite normal. As soon as you step or
>> run in the debugger, it will start handling interrupts again and move
>> on to the next sample.
>
> MSVAD simply writes audio output to a file. The driver does not send
> anything to a sound card.
> I believe it simulates hardware interrupts with timers.
>
> The debugger is not stopping at a breakpoint, just outputting trace
> messages:
> ...
> MSVAD: [CSaveData::WriteData ulByteCount=440]
> MSVAD: [CSaveData::WriteData ulByteCount=440]
> MSVAD: [CMiniportWaveCyclicStreamMSVAD::SetState]
> MSVAD: KSSTATE_RUN
> MSVAD: [CSaveData::WriteData ulByteCount=444]
> MSVAD: [CSaveData::WriteData ulByteCount=440]
> .
> . repeated 35 times
> .
> MSVAD: [CSaveData::SaveFrame]
>
> The CSaveData::WriteData and CSaveData::SaveFrame repeat ad nauseam.
It's probably a timeout issue, as you surmised. Writing to the debugger
takes a surprisingly long time, and clocks get confused. It is very
tricky to use debug messages in a real-time path, unless you use
something like DebugView instead of windbg.
Best you can do is reduce or eliminate the debug messages that happen in
the real-time path.
> I can step the driver (MSVAD) - not the free build OS. If you can tell
> me how to step the free build nt module (other than the disassembly,
> i.e. with C/C++ source code) I would be grateful.
You don't EVER get source code for the operating system, even with a
checked build. You need to know assembler in order to debug drivers.
--
Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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