[alsa-devel] USB transfer_buffer allocations on 64bit systems

[Pedro Ribeiro]

On 8 April 2010 17:57, Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Daniel Mack wrote:
>
>> > > AFAIK, the driver shouldn't have to worry about this at all. When the
>> > > buffer gets DMA-mapped for the controller, the DMA mapping code should
>> > > see that the device has a 32-bit DMA mask and either bounce or IOMMU-map
>> > > the memory so that it appears below 4GB.
>> >
>> > That's true.  It would of course be more efficient for the buffer to be
>> > allocated below 4 GB, but it should work okay either way.  Daniel, do
>> > you have any idea why it fails?
>>
>> No, and I can't do real tests as I lack a 64bit machine. I'll do some
>> more investigation later today, but for now the only explanation I have
>> is that not the remapped DMA buffer is used eventually by the EHCI code
>> but the physical address of the original buffer.
>>
>> It would of course be best to fix the whole problem at this level, if
>> possible.
>
> It definitely needs to be fixed at this level.  But I still think it's
> appropriate to have new USB core functions for allocating and
> deallocating I/O memory.  The additional price is small compared to
> constantly bouncing the buffers.
>
> Pedro, in the hope of tracking down the problem, can you apply this
> patch and see what output it produces in the system log when the
> "interference" happens?  (Warning: It will produce quite a lot of
> output whenever you send data to the audio device -- between 500 and
> 1000 lines per second.)
>
> Alan Stern
>
>
>
> Index: 2.6.33/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
> ===================================================================
> --- 2.6.33.orig/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
> +++ 2.6.33/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c
> @@ -1395,6 +1395,10 @@ int usb_hcd_submit_urb (struct urb *urb,
>                usbmon_urb_submit_error(&hcd->self, urb, status);
>                goto error;
>        }
> +       if (usb_endpoint_is_isoc_out(&urb->ep->desc))
> +               dev_info(&urb->dev->dev, "Iso xfer %p dma %llx\n",
> +                               urb->transfer_buffer,
> +                               (unsigned long long) urb->transfer_dma);
>
>        if (is_root_hub(urb->dev))
>                status = rh_urb_enqueue(hcd, urb);
>
>

I'll do it tonight and send you the results tomorrow morning. Do you
want CONFIG_USB_DEBUG enabled or disabled?

Pedro