14 Feb, 2010
1 commit
-
In isochronous transmit DMA descriptors, link the skip address pointer
back to the descriptor itself. When a cycle is lost, the controller
will send the packet in the next cycle, instead of terminating the
entire DMA program.There are two reasons for this:
* This behaviour is compatible with the old IEEE1394 stack. Old
applications would not expect the DMA program to stop in this case.* Since the OHCI driver does not report any uncompleted packets, the
context would stop silently; clients would not have any chance to
detect and handle this error without a watchdog timer.Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch
Pieter Palmers notes:
"The reason I added this retry behavior to the old stack is because some
cards now and then fail to send a packet (e.g. the o2micro card in my
dell laptop). I couldn't figure out why exactly this happens, my best
guess is that the card cannot fetch the payload data on time. This
happens much more frequently when sending large packets, which leads me
to suspect that there are some contention issues with the DMA that fills
the transmit FIFO.In the old stack it was a pretty critical issue as it resulted in a
freeze of the userspace application.The omission of a packet doesn't necessarily have to be an issue. E.g.
in IEC61883 streams the DBC field can be used to detect discontinuities
in the stream. So as long as the other side doesn't bail when no
[packet] is present in a cycle, there is not really a problem.I'm not convinced though that retrying is the proper solution, but it is
simple and effective for what it had to do. And I think there are no
reasons not to do it this way. Userspace can still detect this by
checking the cycle the descriptor was sent in."Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter (changelog, comment)
28 Jan, 2010
1 commit
-
Unsurprisingly, Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 exhibits the same behaviour
as TSB43AB22/A in dual buffer IR DMA mode: If descriptors are located
at physical addresses above the 31 bit address range (2 GB), the
controller will overwrite random memory. With luck, this merely
prevents video reception. With only a little less luck, the machine
crashes.We use the same workaround here as with TSB43AB22/A: Switch off the
dual buffer capability flag and use packet-per-buffer IR DMA instead.
Another possible workaround would be to limit the coherent DMA mask to
31 bits.In Linux 2.6.33, this change serves effectively only as documentation
since dual buffer mode is not used for any controller anymore. But
somebody might want to re-enable it in the future to make use of
features of dual buffer DMA that are not available in packet-per-buffer
mode.In Linux 2.6.32 and older, this update is vital for anyone with this
controller, more than 2 GB RAM, a 64 bit kernel, and FireWire video or
audio applications.We have at least four reports:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13808
http://marc.info/?l=linux1394-user&m=126154279004083
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552142
http://marc.info/?l=linux1394-user&m=126432246128386Reported-by: Paul Johnson
Reported-by: Ronneil Camara
Reported-by: G Zornetzer
Reported-by: Mark Thompson
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter
30 Dec, 2009
1 commit
-
This is a minimal change meant for the short term: Never set the
ohci->use_dualbuffer flag to true.There are two reasons to do so:
- Packet-per-buffer mode and dual-buffer mode do not behave the same
under certain circumstances, notably if several packets are covered
by a single fw_cdev_iso_packet descriptor.
http://marc.info/?l=linux1394-devel&m=124965653718313
Therefore the driver stack should not silently choose one or the
other mode but should leave the choice to the high-level driver
(regardless if kernel driver or userspace driver). Or simply always
only offer packet-per-buffer mode, since a considerable number of
controllers, even current ones, does not offer dual-buffer support.- Even under circumstances where packet-per-buffer mode and
dual-buffer mode behave exactly the same --- notably when used
through libraw1394, libdc1394, as well as the current two kernel
drivers which use isochronous reception (firewire-net and firedtv)
--- we are still faced with the problem that several OHCI 1.1
controllers have bugs in dual-buffer mode. Although it looks like
we have identified most of those buggy controllers by now, we
cannot be quite sure about that.So, use packet-per-buffer by default from now on. This change should
be followed up by a more complete solution: Either extend the
in-kernel API and the userspace ABI by a choice between the two IR modes
or remove all dual-buffer related code from firewire-ohci.Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter
12 Dec, 2009
2 commits
-
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
firewire: ohci: handle receive packets with a data length of zero -
Queueing to receive an ISO packet with a payload length of zero
silently does nothing in dualbuffer mode, and crashes the kernel in
packet-per-buffer mode. Return an error in dualbuffer mode, because
the DMA controller won't let us do what we want, and work correctly in
packet-per-buffer mode.Signed-off-by: Jay Fenlason
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter
Cc: stable@kernel.org
09 Dec, 2009
1 commit
-
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
ieee1394: Use hweight32
firewire: cdev: reduce stack usage by ioctl_dispatch
firewire: ohci: 0 may be a valid DMA address
firewire: core: WARN on wrong usage of core transaction functions
firewire: core: optimize Topology Map creation
firewire: core: clarify generate_config_rom usage
firewire: optimize config ROM creation
firewire: cdev: normalize variable names
firewire: normalize style of queue_work wrappers
firewire: cdev: fix memory leak in an error path
21 Nov, 2009
1 commit
-
Here is the final set of patches I used to get ffado to work with the
new firewire stack. With these patches, I was able to start ardour
and record from and playback to my PreSonus Inspire1394 from a
(mostly) Fedora 12 system.Signed-off-by: Jay Fenlason
Until now, firewire-ohci exposed only the transmit cycle of the last
transmitted packet at each isochronous transmit complete event. This
made it impossible for FFADO (FireWire audio drivers in userspace) to
synchronize audio-out streams. The fix is to store the timestamp of
each packet in the iso xmit event. As a bonus, the transfer status is
stored too.Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter
19 Nov, 2009
1 commit
-
Calling the START_ISO ioctl with a nonnegative cycle paramater has
never worked. Last night I got around to figuring out why. Most of
this patch is a big comment explaining why we enable an interrupt
source then don't actually do anything when we get one. As the
comment says, we should do more, but we don't have a way to tell
userspace what happened. . .Signed-off-by: Jay Fenlason
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter (edited comment)
31 Oct, 2009
1 commit
-
I was told that there are obscure architectures with non-coherent DMA
which may DMA-map to bus address 0. We shall not use 0 as a magic
number of uninitialized bus address variables.The packet->payload_length > 0 test cannot be used either (except in
at_context_queue_packet) because local requests are not DMA-mapped
regardless of payload_length. Hence add a state flag to struct
fw_packet.Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter
15 Oct, 2009
1 commit
-
The config ROM image of the local node was created in CPU byte order,
then a temporary big endian copy was created to compute the CRC, and
finally the card driver created its own big endian copy.We now generate it in big endian byte order in the first place to avoid
one byte order conversion and the temporary on-stack copy of the ROM
image (1000 bytes stack usage in process context). Furthermore, two
1000 bytes memset()s are replaced by one 1000 bytes - ROM length sized
memset.The trivial fw_memcpy_{from,to}_be32() helpers are now superfluous and
removed. The newly added __compute_block_crc() function will be folded
into fw_compute_block_crc() in a subsequent change.Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter
12 Sep, 2009
1 commit
-
The selfIDSize field of Self ID Count is 9 bits wide, and we are only
interested in the high 8 bits. Fix the mask accordingly. The
previously too large mask didn't do damage though because the next few
bits in the register are reserved and therefore zero with presently
existing hardware.Also, check for the maximum possible self ID count of 252 (according to
OHCI 1.1 clause 11.2 and IEEE 1394a-2000 clause 4.3.4.1, i.e. up to four
self IDs of up to 63 nodes, even though IEEE 1394 up to edition 2008
defines only up to three self IDs per node). More than 252 self IDs
would only happen if the self ID receive DMA unit malfunctioned, which
would likely be caught by other self ID buffer checks. However, check
it early to be sure. More than 253 quadlets would overflow the Topology
Map CSR.Reported-By: PaX Team
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter
05 Sep, 2009
2 commits
-
In dual-buffer DMA mode, no video frames are ever received from R5C832
by libdc1394. Fallback to packet-per-buffer DMA works reliably.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.firewire.devel/13393/focus=13476Reported-by: Jonathan Cameron
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter -
An Agere FW643 OHCI 1.1 card works fine for video reception from one
camera but fails early if receiving from two cameras. After a short
while, no IR IRQ events occur and the context control register does not
react anymore. This happens regardless whether both IR DMA contexts are
dual-buffer or one is dual-buffer and the other packet-per-buffer.This can be worked around by disabling dual buffer DMA mode entirely.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=4A7C0594.2020208%40gmail.com
(Reported by Samuel Audet.)In another report (by Jonathan Cameron), an FW643 works OK with two
cameras in dual buffer mode. Whether this is due to different chip
revisions or different usage patterns (different video formats) is not
yet clear. However, as far as the current capabilities of
firewire-core's isochronous I/O interface are concerned, simply
switching off dual-buffer on non-working and working FW643s alike is not
a problem in practice. We only need to revisit this issue if we are
going to enhance the interface, e.g. so that applications can explicitly
choose modes.Reported-by: Samuel Audet
Reported-by: Jonathan Cameron
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter
05 Jun, 2009
1 commit
-
The source files of firewire-core, firewire-ohci, firewire-sbp2, i.e.
"drivers/firewire/fw-*.c"
are renamed to
"drivers/firewire/core-*.c",
"drivers/firewire/ohci.c",
"drivers/firewire/sbp2.c".The old fw- prefix was redundant to the directory name. The new core-
prefix distinguishes the files according to which driver they belong to.This change comes a little late, but still before further firewire
drivers are added as anticipated RSN.Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter