On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Hi, All:
>
> I've refactored the friends of usb_sg_request to permit it being used
> by ub. The result is attached FYI. It's probably buggy. I cannot convince
> myself that all this is correct.
>
> In case anyone is curious, fields in usb_sg_request were renamed because
> their functions morphed in a way which made some of uses incorrect for
> each of them. The renaming ensures that programmer examines every use.
In general this looks pretty good. I didn't read through your changes to
ub, just to the usb_sg library. Here's what I noticed:
In sg_setup the fourth argument is always io->nmaps. So you don't need to
pass it as a separate argument.
Without checking to see if this is really feasible, it certainly seems
like the two places where you do the dma and usb_buffer_sg_map stuff can
be combined into one, in sg_setup. Of course then you would have to pass
nents as the fourth argument, negating my previous point.
In sg_setup, the "if (length)" test isn't needed; the code it protects
can execute unconditionally. Also, the "io->urbs [--i]" near the end
looks strange. I would prefer to see "[i-1]", since the value of i isn't
needed anywhere else. Finally, although this wasn't present in the
original code, it might be a good idea to check that length == 0 at the
end of the loop. Otherwise the scatter-gather list is too short.
In usb_sg_setup: Rather than return -EFAULT, why not allow 0-length
transfers?
In usb_sg_submit: The logic at the end is wrong. This is very difficult
to get right. There are two main issues to worry about:
If any URBs were submitted successfully then you _have_ to
make a callback. Otherwise the user won't know when the
memory buffers are available again.
At the end of usb_sg_submit, a callback may or may not already
have occurred. If the
io->count -= start_count - i;
line changes io->count from non-zero to 0, then usb_sg_submit
must be responsible for making the callback.
At the end of the loop, i should be the number of successfully submitted
URBs. Its value will be wrong unless you add
if (retval)
break;
to the bottom part of the loop. Otherwise the routine would think that
the last, failed submission is outstanding. The code following the loop
should look something like this:
io->count -= start_count - i;
retval = 0;
if (i == 0)
retval = io->status;
else if (i == start_count || io->count > 0)
i = 0;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&io->lock, flags);
if (i)
(*io->complete) (io->context);
return retval;
HTH,
Alan Stern
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