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USB: EHCI: don't lose events during a scan
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This patch (as1584) fixes a minor bug that has been present in
ehci-hcd since the beginning.

Scanning the schedules for URB completions is single-threaded.  If a
completion interrupt occurs while an URB is being given back, the
interrupt handler realizes that a scan is in progress on another CPU
and avoids starting a new one.

This means that completion events can be lost.  If an URB completes
after it has been scanned but while a scan is still in progress, the
driver won't notice and won't rescan the completed URB.

The patch fixes the problem by adding a new flag to indicate that
another scan is needed after the current scan is done.  The flag gets
set whenever a completion interrupt occurs while a scan is in
progress.  The rescan will see the completion, thus preventing it from
getting lost.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Alan Stern authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Jul 16, 2012
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13 changes: 10 additions & 3 deletions drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c
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Expand Up @@ -400,14 +400,21 @@ static void ehci_work (struct ehci_hcd *ehci)
* it reports urb completions. this flag guards against bogus
* attempts at re-entrant schedule scanning.
*/
if (ehci->scanning)
if (ehci->scanning) {
ehci->need_rescan = true;
return;
ehci->scanning = 1;
}
ehci->scanning = true;

rescan:
ehci->need_rescan = false;
if (ehci->async_count)
scan_async(ehci);
if (ehci->next_uframe != -1)
scan_periodic (ehci);
ehci->scanning = 0;
if (ehci->need_rescan)
goto rescan;
ehci->scanning = false;

/* the IO watchdog guards against hardware or driver bugs that
* misplace IRQs, and should let us run completely without IRQs.
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion drivers/usb/host/ehci.h
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Expand Up @@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ struct ehci_hcd { /* one per controller */
enum ehci_rh_state rh_state;

/* general schedule support */
unsigned scanning:1;
bool scanning:1;
bool need_rescan:1;
bool intr_unlinking:1;
bool async_unlinking:1;

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