On 01/13/15 17:29, Ian Lepore wrote:
On Tue, 2015-01-13 at 16:57 +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
On 01/13/15 16:40, Ian Lepore wrote:
On Tue, 2015-01-13 at 16:27 +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
On 01/13/15 15:49, Ian Lepore wrote:
On Tue, 2015-01-13 at 00:14 -0700, kott wrote:
Yes with cache disabled, this problem is not seen. Seems to be with a issue
with l2 cache.
Thanks kott
Except that there are no known problems with l2 cache on armv7 right
now. There are known problems with the USB driver using the busdma
routines incorrectly, which accidentally works okay on x86 platforms but
likely not so well on others.
Hi,
If there is a problem it is in "usb_pc_cpu_flush()" or
"usb_pc_cpu_invalidate()":
void
usb_pc_cpu_flush(struct usb_page_cache *pc)
{
if (pc->page_offset_end == pc->page_offset_buf) {
/* nothing has been loaded into this page cache! */
return;
}
bus_dmamap_sync(pc->tag, pc->map, BUS_DMASYNC_PREWRITE);
}
USB has a very simple DMA sync language, either flush or invalidate.
These are used correctly from what I can see with regard to the FreeBSD
USB specification.
If the "usb_pc_cpu_flush()" function does not cause the CPU cache to be
written to RAM before the function returns, please let me know.
--HPS
You have an incomplete concept of how busdma sync operations work. It
isn't a simple "cpu cache written to ram" operation, there are bounce
buffers and other complexities involved that require that the sync
operations be done at the correct time in the correct order, and the
current usb driver doesn't do that. Instead it does things like
bus_dmamap_sync(pc->tag, pc->map, BUS_DMASYNC_POSTREAD);
bus_dmamap_sync(pc->tag, pc->map, BUS_DMASYNC_PREREAD);
And that's just nonsense that will lead to problems like delivering
random buffer garbage to/from a device.
To the degree that USB works at all on non-x86 platforms it works by
accident. Usually. Except when it doesn't.
-- Ian
Hi,
Bounce buffers are perfectly fine with USB as long as the busdma does
what it is told. If there is no easy way to do a simple "cache flush" or
"cache invalide" or bounce buffer "flush" or bounce buffer "invalidate"
multiple times in a row, then busdma cannot co-exist with USB. It is not
because I'm stubborn, but because of the way USB DMA controllers are
designed.
With USB chipsets we sometimes need to read the RAM area for a single
buffer multiple times to poll for updates. From what I've been told in
the past BUSDMA does.
--HPS
--HPS
--HPS
And so we reach the same old impasse, where you declare that USB is
special and doesn't have to behave like other drivers, even though it is
in no way unique in terms of having things like concurrent shared access
to descriptor memory, something that virtually every modern NIC has.
Hi,
Can you give an example of a NIC driver which you consider a good
example which use DMA both for data (not only mbufs) and the control
path and use busdma as you consider to be correct?
--HPS
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