Since some devices can be chatty with regards to how often they return
from poll(), this adds a PA_UNLIKELY() to all the the rewind_requested
checks in our sink modules to make the general case (no rewind was
requested) the fast path.
When a rewind is requested on a sink input, the request parameters are
stored in the pa_sink_input struct. The parameters are reset during
rewind processing, and if the sink decides to ignore the rewind
request due to being suspended, stale parameters are left in
pa_sink_input. It's particularly problematic if the rewrite_bytes
parameter is left at -1, because that will prevent all future rewind
processing on that sink input. So, in order to avoid stale parameters,
every rewind request needs to be processed, even if the sink is
suspended.
Reported-by: Uoti Urpala
A part of Xen's paravirtualized audio driver has been developed as a
pulseaudio module. This module acts as a tunnel over Xen's shared memory
mechanism and allows a domU guest to send audio data to a dom0 backend.
Reference: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43503