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 <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
* '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 <fenlason@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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 <fenlason@redhat.com>
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 <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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 <fenlason@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (edited comment)
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 <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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 <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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 <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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=13476
Reported-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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 <samuel.audet@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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 <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
