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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] usb: host: xhci: Handle the right timeout command
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On 13.12.2016 05:21, Baolin Wang wrote:
> Hi Mathias,
>
> On 12 December 2016 at 23:52, Mathias Nyman
> <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> On 05.12.2016 09:51, Baolin Wang wrote:
>>>
>>> If a command event is found on the event ring during an interrupt,
>>> we need to stop the command timer with del_timer(). Since del_timer()
>>> can fail if the timer is running and waiting on the xHCI lock, then
>>> it maybe get the wrong timeout command in xhci_handle_command_timeout()
>>> if host fetched a new command and updated the xhci->current_cmd in
>>> handle_cmd_completion(). For this situation, we need a way to signal
>>> to the command timer that everything is fine and it should exit.
>>
>>
>> Ah, right, this could actually happen.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We should introduce a counter (xhci->current_cmd_pending) for the number
>>> of pending commands. If we need to cancel the command timer and
>>> del_timer()
>>> succeeds, we decrement the number of pending commands. If del_timer()
>>> fails,
>>> we leave the number of pending commands alone.
>>>
>>> For handling timeout command, in xhci_handle_command_timeout() we will
>>> check
>>> the counter after decrementing it, if the counter
>>> (xhci->current_cmd_pending)
>>> is 0, which means xhci->current_cmd is the right timeout command. If the
>>> counter (xhci->current_cmd_pending) is greater than 0, which means current
>>> timeout command has been handled by host and host has fetched new command
>>> as
>>> xhci->current_cmd, then just return and wait for new current command.
>>
>>
>> A counter like this could work.
>>
>> Writing the abort bit can generate either ABORT+STOP, or just STOP
>> event, this seems to cover both.
>>
>> quick check, case 1: timeout and cmd completion at the same time.
>>
>> cpu1 cpu2
>>
>> queue_command(first), p++ (=1)
>> queue_command(more),
>> --completion irq fires-- -- timer times out at same time--
>> handle_cmd_completion() handle_cmd_timeout(),)
>> lock(xhci_lock ) spin_on(xhci_lock)
>> del_timer() fail, p (=1, nochange)
>> cur_cmd = list_next(), p++ (=2)
>> unlock(xhci_lock)
>> lock(xhci_lock)
>> p-- (=1)
>> if (p > 0), exit
>> OK works
>>
>> case 2: normal timeout case with ABORT+STOP, no race.
>>
>> cpu1 cpu2
>>
>> queue_command(first), p++ (=1)
>> queue_command(more),
>> handle_cmd_timeout()
>> p-- (P=0), don't exit
>> mod_timer(), p++ (P=1)
>> write_abort_bit()
>> handle_cmd_comletion(ABORT)
>> del_timer(), ok, p-- (p = 0)
>> handle_cmd_completion(STOP)
>> del_timer(), fail, (P=0)
>> handle_stopped_cmd_ring()
>> cur_cmd = list_next(), p++ (=1)
>> mod_timer()
>>
>> OK, works, and same for just STOP case, with the only difference that
>> during handle_cmd_completion(STOP) p is decremented (p--)
>
> Yes, that's the cases what I want to handle, thanks for your explicit
> explanation.
>

Gave this some more thought over the weekend, and this implementation
doesn't solve the case when the last command times out and races with the
completion handler:

cpu1 cpu2

queue_command(first), p++ (=1)
--completion irq fires-- -- timer times out at same time--
handle_cmd_completion() handle_cmd_timeout(),)
lock(xhci_lock ) spin_on(xhci_lock)
del_timer() fail, p (=1, nochange)
no more commands, P (=1, nochange)
unlock(xhci_lock)
lock(xhci_lock)
p-- (=0)
p == 0, continue, even if we should not.

For this we still need to rely on checking cur_cmd == NULL in the timeout function.
(Baolus patch sets it to NULL if there are no more commands pending)

And then we could replace the whole counter with a simple check if the timeout timer
is pending in the timeout function:

xhci_handle_command_timeout()
lock()
if (!cur_cmd || timer_pending(timeout_timer)) {
unlock();
return;
}

-Mathias

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