Agere FW643 rev 06, listed as "11c1:5901 (rev 06) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])",
produced SBP-2 I/O errors since kernel 2.6.36. Disabling MSI fixes it.
Since MSI work on Agere FW643-E (same vendor and device ID, but rev 07),
introduce a device revision field into firewire-ohci's quirks list so
that different quirks can be defined for older and newer revisions.
Reported-by: Jonathan Isom <jeisom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 2.6.36.y
"VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller [1106:3403]"
does not generate any interrupts if Message Signaled Interrupts were
enabled. This is a regression since kernel 2.6.36 in which MSI support
was added to firewire-ohci. Hence blacklist MSI on all VIA controllers.
Reported-by: Robin Cook <rcook@wyrms.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # 2.6.36.y
If the controller is storing a split packet and therefore changing
d->res_count to zero between the two reads by the driver, we end up with
an end pointer that is not at a packet boundary, and therefore overflow
the buffer when handling the split packet.
To fix this, read the field once, atomically. The compiler usually
merges the two reads anyway, but for correctness, we have to enforce it.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Freeing an AR buffer page just to allocate a new page immediately
afterwards is not only a pointless effort but also dangerous because
the allocation can fail, which would result in an oops later.
Split ar_context_add_page() into two functions so that we can reuse
the old page directly.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
When handling an AR buffer that has been completely filled, we assumed
that its descriptor will not be read by the controller and can be
overwritten. However, when the last received packet happens to end at
the end of the buffer, the controller might not yet have moved on to the
next buffer and might read the branch address later. If we overwrite
and free the page before that, the DMA context will either go dead
because of an invalid Z value, or go off into some random memory.
To fix this, ensure that the descriptor does not get overwritten by
using only the actual buffer instead of the entire page for reassembling
the split packet. Furthermore, to avoid freeing the page too early,
move on to the next buffer only when some data in it guarantees that the
controller has moved on.
This should eliminate the remaining firewire-net problems.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: 2.6.22-2.6.36 <stable@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
When the controller had to split a received asynchronous packet into two
buffers, the driver tries to reassemble it by copying both parts into
the first page. However, if size + rest > PAGE_SIZE, i.e., if the yet
unhandled packets before the split packet, the split packet itself, and
any received packets after the split packet are together larger than one
page, then the memory after the first page would get overwritten.
To fix this, do not try to copy the data of all unhandled packets at
once, but copy the possibly needed data every time when handling
a packet.
This gets rid of most of the infamous crashes and data corruptions when
using firewire-net.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: 2.6.22-2.6.36 <stable@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (cast PAGE_SIZE to size_t)
Revert commit 54672386cc
"firewire: ohci: fix up configuration of TI chips".
It caused massive slow-down and data corruption with a TSB82AA2 based
StarTech EC1394B2 ExpressCard and FireWire 800 harddisks.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/657081http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.firewire.user/4013
The fact that some card EEPROMs do not program these enhancements may be
related to TSB81BA3 phy chip errata, if not to bugs of TSB82AA2 itself.
We could re-add these configuration steps, but only conditional on a
whitelist of cards on which these enhancements bring a proven positive
effect.
Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Shattow <lucent@gmail.com>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.35
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
The Ricoh FireWire controllers appear to have the non-atomic cycle
timer register access bug, so, activate the driver workaround by
default.
The behaviour was observed on:
Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0552] and
Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 04).
Signed-off-by: Heikki Lindholm <holin@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
VIA VT6306, VIA VT6308, and NEC OrangeLink controllers do not write
packet event codes for received PHY packets (or perhaps write
evt_no_status, hard to tell). Work around it by overwriting the
packet's ACK by ack_complete, so that upper layers that listen to PHY
packet reception get to see these packets.
(Also tested: TI TSB82AA2, TI TSB43AB22/A, TI XIO2213A, Agere FW643,
JMicron JMB381 --- these do not exhibit this bug.)
Clemens proposed a quirks flag for that, IOW whitelist known misbehaving
controllers for this workaround. Though to me it seems harmless enough
to enable for all controllers.
The log_ar_at_event() debug log will continue to show the original
status from the DMA unit.
Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> (VT6308)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Conflicts:
drivers/firewire/core-card.c
drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c
and forgotten #include <linux/time.h> in drivers/firewire/ohci.c
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
This adds the DMA context programming and userspace ABI for multichannel
reception, i.e. for listening on multiple channel numbers by means of a
single DMA context.
The use case is reception of more streams than there are IR DMA units
offered by the link layer. This is already implemented by the older
ohci1394 + ieee1394 + raw1394 stack. And as discussed recently on
linux1394-devel, this feature is occasionally used in practice.
The big drawbacks of this mode are that buffer layout and interrupt
generation necessarily differ from single-channel reception: Headers
and trailers are not stripped from packets, packets are not aligned with
buffer chunks, interrupts are per buffer chunk, not per packet.
These drawbacks also cause a rather hefty code footprint to support this
rarely used OHCI-1394 feature. (367 lines added, among them 94 lines of
added userspace ABI documentation.)
This implementation enforces that a multichannel reception context may
only listen to channels to which no single-channel context on the same
link layer is presently listening to. OHCI-1394 would allow to overlay
single-channel contexts by the multi-channel context, but this would be
a departure from the present first-come-first-served policy of IR
context creation.
The implementation is heavily based on an earlier one by Jay Fenlason.
Thanks Jay.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
firewire-ohci keeps book of which isochronous channels are occupied by
IR DMA contexts, so that there cannot be more than one context listening
to a certain channel.
If IR context creation failed due to an out-of-memory condition, this
bookkeeping leaked a channel.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
When we append to a DMA program, we need to ensure that the order in
which initialization of the new descriptors and update of the
branch_address of the old tail descriptor, as seen by the PCI device,
happen as intended.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
This extends the FW_CDEV_IOC_SEND_PHY_PACKET ioctl() for /dev/fw* to be
useful for ping time measurements. One application for it would be gap
count optimization in userspace that is based on ping times rather than
hop count. (The latter is implemented in firewire-core itself but is
not applicable to beta PHYs that act as repeater.)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Add an FW_CDEV_IOC_RECEIVE_PHY_PACKETS ioctl() and
FW_CDEV_EVENT_PHY_PACKET_RECEIVED poll()/read() event for /dev/fw*.
This can be used to get information from remote PHYs by remote access
PHY packets.
This is also the 2nd half of the functionality (the receive part) to
support a userspace implementation of a VersaPHY transaction layer.
Safety considerations:
- PHY packets are generally broadcasts, hence some kind of elevated
privileges should be required of a process to be able to listen in
on PHY packets. This implementation assumes that a process that is
allowed to open the /dev/fw* of a local node does have this
privilege.
There was an inconclusive discussion about introducing POSIX
capabilities as a means to check for user privileges for these
kinds of operations.
Other limitations:
- PHY packet reception may be switched on by ioctl() but cannot be
switched off again. It would be trivial to provide an off switch,
but this is not worth the code. The client should simply close()
the fd then, or just ignore further events.
- For sake of simplicity of API and kernel-side implementation, no
filter per packet content is provided.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Bus resets which are triggered
- by the kernel drivers after updates of the local nodes' config ROM,
- by userspace software via ioctl
shall be deferred until after >=2 seconds after the last bus reset.
If multiple modifications of the local nodes' config ROM happen in a row,
only a single bus reset should happen after them.
When the local node's link goes from inactive to active or vice versa,
and at the two occasions of bus resets mentioned above --- and if the
current gap count differs from 63 --- the bus reset should be preceded
by a PHY configuration packet that reaffirms the gap count. Otherwise a
bus manager would have to reset the bus again right after that.
This is necessary to promote bus stability, e.g. leave grace periods for
allocations and reallocations of isochronous channels and bandwidth,
SBP-2 reconnections etc.; see IEEE 1394 clause 8.2.1.
This change implements all of the above by moving bus reset initiation
into a delayed work (except for bus resets which are triggered by the
bus manager workqueue job and are performed there immediately). It
comes with a necessary addition to the card driver methods that allows
to get the current gap count from PHY registers.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Rather than "read a Control and Status Registers (CSR) Architecture
register" I prefer to say "read a Control and Status Register".
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Push the maintenance of STATE_CLEAR/SET.abdicate down into the card
driver. This way, the read/write_csr_reg driver method works uniformly
across all CSR offsets.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
by feature variables in the fw_card struct. The hook appeared to be an
unnecessary abstraction in the card driver interface.
Cleaner would be to pass those feature flags as arguments to
fw_card_initialize() or fw_card_add(), but the FairnessControl register
is in the SCLK domain and may therefore not be accessible while Link
Power Status is off, i.e. before the card->driver->enable call from
fw_card_add().
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Add a comment on which of the conflicting NODE_IDS specifications we
implement. Reduce a comment on rather irrelevant register bits that can
all be looked up in the spec (or from now on in the code history).
Directly include the required indirectly included bug.h.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
On OHCI 1.1 controllers, let the hardware allocate the broadcast channel
automatically. This removes a theoretical race condition directly after
a bus reset where it could be possible to read the channel allocation
register with channel 31 still being unallocated.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Implement the cmstr bit, which is required for cycle master capable
nodes and tested for by the Base 1394 Test Suite.
This bit allows the bus master to disable cycle start packets; there are
bus master implementations that actually do this.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
If supported by the OHCI controller, implement the PRIORITY_BUDGET
register, which is required for nodes that can use asynchronous
priority arbitration.
To allow the core to determine what features the lowlevel device
supports, add a new card driver callback.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Implement the BUS_TIME register, which is required for cycle master
capable nodes and tested for by the Base 1393 Test Suite. Even when
there is not yet bus master initialization support, this register allows
us to work together with other bus masters.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
The specification requires that CYCLE_TIME is writable so that it can be
initialized, so we better implement it.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
The NODE_IDS register, and especially its bus_id field, is quite
useless because 1394.1 requires that the bus_id field always stays
0x3ff. However, the 1394 specification requires this register on all
transaction capable nodes, and the Base 1394 Test Suite tests for it,
so we better implement it.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To prepare for the following additions of more OHCI-implemented CSR
registers, replace the get_cycle_time driver callback with a generic
CSR register callback.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Most PHY chips, when idle, can complete a register access in the time
needed for two or three PCI read transactions; bigger delays occur only
when data is currently being moved over the link/PHY interface. So if
we busy-wait a few times when waiting for the register access to finish,
it is likely that we can finish without having to sleep.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
This patch adds support for message-signaled interrupts.
Any native PCI-Express OHCI controller should support MSI, but most are
just PCI cores behind a PCI-E/PCI bridge. The only chips that are known
to claim to support MSI are the Lucent/Agere/LSI FW643 and the VIA
VT6315, none of which I have been able to test.
Due to the high level of trust I have in the competence of these and any
future chip makers, I thought it a good idea to add a disable-MSI quirk.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Tested Agere FW643 rev 07 [11c1:5901] and JMicron JMB381 [197b:2380].
Added a quirks list entry for JMB38X since it kept its count of MSI
events consistently at zero.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
On 26 Apr 2010, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> In theory, none of the interrupts should occur before the link is
> enabled. In practice, I'd rather make sure to not set the master
> interrupt enable bit until we have installed the interrupt handler.
and proposed to move OHCI1394_masterIntEnable out of the present
reg_write() into a new one before the HCControl.linkEnable reg_write().
Why not defer setting /all/ of the bits until right before linkEnable?
Reviewed-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
ieee1394: schedule for removal
firewire: core: use separate timeout for each transaction
firewire: core: Fix tlabel exhaustion problem
firewire: core: make transaction label allocation more robust
firewire: core: clean up config ROM related defined constants
ieee1394: mark char device files as not seekable
firewire: cdev: mark char device files as not seekable
firewire: ohci: cleanups and fix for nonstandard build without debug facility
firewire: ohci: wait for PHY register accesses to complete
firewire: ohci: fix up configuration of TI chips
firewire: ohci: enable 1394a enhancements
firewire: ohci: do not clear PHY interrupt status inadvertently
firewire: ohci: add a function for reading PHY registers
Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (44 commits)
vlynq: make whole Kconfig-menu dependant on architecture
add descriptive comment for TIF_MEMDIE task flag declaration.
EEPROM: max6875: Header file cleanup
EEPROM: 93cx6: Header file cleanup
EEPROM: Header file cleanup
agp: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed
rtc-v3020: make bitfield unsigned
PCI: make bitfield unsigned
jbd2: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed
cciss: fix shadows sparse warning
doc: inode uses a mutex instead of a semaphore.
uml: i386: Avoid redefinition of NR_syscalls
fix "seperate" typos in comments
cocbalt_lcdfb: correct sections
doc: Change urls for sparse
Powerpc: wii: Fix typo in comment
i2o: cleanup some exit paths
Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate
UML: Fix compiler warning due to missing task_struct declaration
UML: add kernel.h include to signal.c
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
firewire: ohci: wait for local CSR lock access to finish
firewire: ohci: prevent aliasing of locally handled register addresses
firewire: core: fw_iso_resource_manage: return -EBUSY when out of resources
firewire: core: fix retries calculation in iso manage_channel()
firewire: cdev: fix cut+paste mistake in disclaimer
Add a loop to wait for the controller to finish a locally-initiated CSR
lock operation. Google shows some occurrences of the "swap not done
yet" message which might indicate that some OHCI controllers are not
fast enough to do the lock/swap in the time needed for one PCI access.
This also correctly handles the case where the lock operation did not
finish, instead of silently returning an uninitialized value.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
We must compute the offset from the CSR register base with the
full 48 address bits to prevent matching with addresses whose
lower 32 bits happen to be equal with one of the specially
handled registers.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
1) Clean up two function names: The ohci_ prefix is only used in names
of fw_card_driver hooks. There were two unnecessary exceptions.
2) Replace empty macros by empty inline functions so that call parameter
type checking is available in #ifndef'd builds.
3) CONFIG_FIREWIRE_OHCI_DEBUG is currently a hidden kconfig variable,
hence is not going to be switched off by anybody. Still, it can be
switched off but then compilation will fail in ohci_enable() at the
expression param_debug & OHCI_PARAM_DEBUG_BUSRESETS. Add the necessary
definitions in the nonstandard case.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Rather than having the arbitrary msleep(2) pause, let read_phy_reg()
loop until the link--phy access was finished.
Factor write_phy_reg() out of ohci_update_phy_reg() and of
read_paged_phy_reg() and let it loop too until the link--phy access was
finished.
Like in the older ohci1394 driver, a timeout of 100 milliseconds is
chosen. Unlike the old driver, we sleep instead of busy-wait in each
waiting loop iteration. Instead of a loop, the waiting could probably
also be implemented interrupt driven, but why bother. It would require
up and running interrupt handling before the link was fully configured
and enabled.
Also modify functions a bit: Error return and value return can be
combined in read_phy_reg() since the domain of values is only u8.
Likewise in read_paged_phy_reg().
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
On TI chips (OHCI-Lynx and later), enable link enhancements features
that TI recommends to be used. None of these are required for proper
operation, but they are safe and nice to have.
In theory, these bits should have been set by default, but in practice,
some BIOS/EEPROM writers apparently do not read the datasheet, or get
spooked by names like "unfair".
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
The OHCI spec says that, if the programPhyEnable bit is set, the driver
is responsible for configuring the IEEE1394a enhancements within the PHY
and the link consistently. So do this.
Also add a quirk to allow disabling these enhancements; this is needed
for the TSB12LV22 where ack accelerations are buggy (erratum b).
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
The interrupt status bits in PHY register 5 are cleared by writing a one
bit. To avoid clearing them unadvertently, do not write them back when
they were read as set, but only when they have been explicitly requested
to be set.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Move the register reading code from ohci_update_phy_reg() into
a function which can be used separately.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Among the many entries in the TSB12LV22 errata list (TI literature
number SLLS312) is the following:
PCI Slave reads of the Cycle Timer register may occasionally get an
incorrect value.
Software may be able to validate value by reading the register
multiple times rapidly and evaluating for a reasonable difference.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> (untested)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (added #define)
by the number of available isochronous DMA contexts and active quirks
which is occasionally useful information.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
This bug was present in firewire-ohci since day one: The number of
available isochronous receive DMA contexts was mixed up with that of
available isochronous transmit DMA contexts.
This is harmless on a few chips which offer the same number of contexts
in both directions, but most chips nowadays implement only the standard
minimum of 4 IR contexts, but 8 IT contexts. If a user attempted to run
a lot of IR contexts at once, results with more than four were therefore
unpredictable. I suppose the controller would simply refuse to start
DMA of any unimplemented context.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
This way, we can advise users of precompiled kernel packages to test
existing quirk fixes on chips which have not been listed yet, without
them having to build a kernel from source.
Note, to use this feature on a machine with more than one controller,
steps like these are necessary:
# lspci | grep 1394
# ls /sys/bus/pci/drivers/firewire_ohci/
# echo -n "0000:03:02.0" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/firewire_ohci/unbind
# echo 2 > /sys/module/firewire_ohci/parameters/quirks
# echo -n "0000:03:02.0" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/firewire_ohci/bind
# echo 0 > /sys/module/firewire_ohci/parameters/quirks
The parameter can also be used to switch off quirk flags that were
hardwired into firewire-ohci's quirks table. Simply specify a non-zero
quirks value but without any known flags, e.g. 0x100.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
We don't have a lot of quirks to take into account (especially since
dual-buffer IR is out of the picture), but still, a table-based approach
is more organized than a series of if () clauses.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
