[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "usb: core: buffer: smallest buffer should start at ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Mar 2 13:34:14 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    usb: core: buffer: smallest buffer should start at ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt8.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 47a97363b0090408df4a986c8bd9edbf967cdc90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 15:13:54 +0100
Subject: usb: core: buffer: smallest buffer should start at ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN

commit 5efd2ea8c9f4f12916ffc8ba636792ce052f6911 upstream.

the following error pops up during "testusb -a -t 10"
| musb-hdrc musb-hdrc.1.auto: dma_pool_free buffer-128,	f134e000/be842000 (bad dma)
hcd_buffer_create() creates a few buffers, the smallest has 32 bytes of
size. ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is set to 64 bytes. This combo results in
hcd_buffer_alloc() returning memory which is 32 bytes aligned and it
might by identified by buffer_offset() as another buffer. This means the
buffer which is on a 32 byte boundary will not get freed, instead it
tries to free another buffer with the error message.

This patch fixes the issue by creating the smallest DMA buffer with the
size of ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN (or 32 in case ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is
smaller). This might be 32, 64 or even 128 bytes. The next three pools
will have the size 128, 512 and 2048.
In case the smallest pool is 128 bytes then we have only three pools
instead of four (and zero the first entry in the array).
The last pool size is always 2048 bytes which is the assumed PAGE_SIZE /
2 of 4096. I doubt it makes sense to continue using PAGE_SIZE / 2 where
we would end up with 8KiB buffer in case we have 16KiB pages.
Instead I think it makes sense to have a common size(s) and extend them
if there is need to.
There is a BUILD_BUG_ON() now in case someone has a minalign of more than
128 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/core/buffer.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++---------
 drivers/usb/core/usb.c    |  1 +
 include/linux/usb/hcd.h   |  1 +
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/buffer.c b/drivers/usb/core/buffer.c
index 684ef70dc09d..506b969ea7fd 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/buffer.c
@@ -22,17 +22,25 @@
  */

 /* FIXME tune these based on pool statistics ... */
-static const size_t	pool_max[HCD_BUFFER_POOLS] = {
-	/* platforms without dma-friendly caches might need to
-	 * prevent cacheline sharing...
-	 */
-	32,
-	128,
-	512,
-	PAGE_SIZE / 2
-	/* bigger --> allocate pages */
+static size_t pool_max[HCD_BUFFER_POOLS] = {
+	32, 128, 512, 2048,
 };

+void __init usb_init_pool_max(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * The pool_max values must never be smaller than
+	 * ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN.
+	 */
+	if (ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN <= 32)
+		;			/* Original value is okay */
+	else if (ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN <= 64)
+		pool_max[0] = 64;
+	else if (ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN <= 128)
+		pool_max[0] = 0;	/* Don't use this pool */
+	else
+		BUILD_BUG();		/* We don't allow this */
+}

 /* SETUP primitives */

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/usb.c b/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
index 4d1144990d4c..a92273026ecc 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
@@ -1050,6 +1050,7 @@ static int __init usb_init(void)
 		pr_info("%s: USB support disabled\n", usbcore_name);
 		return 0;
 	}
+	usb_init_pool_max();

 	retval = usb_debugfs_init();
 	if (retval)
diff --git a/include/linux/usb/hcd.h b/include/linux/usb/hcd.h
index 485cd5e2100c..52598bdce2ba 100644
--- a/include/linux/usb/hcd.h
+++ b/include/linux/usb/hcd.h
@@ -448,6 +448,7 @@ extern const struct dev_pm_ops usb_hcd_pci_pm_ops;
 #endif /* CONFIG_PCI */

 /* pci-ish (pdev null is ok) buffer alloc/mapping support */
+void usb_init_pool_max(void);
 int hcd_buffer_create(struct usb_hcd *hcd);
 void hcd_buffer_destroy(struct usb_hcd *hcd);





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