From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thinh Nguyen <Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com>,
Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@intel.com>,
Guido Kiener <Guido.Kiener@rohde-schwarz.com>,
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Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [syzbot] INFO: rcu detected stall in tx
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 14:55:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210524185520.GA1332625@rowland.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37c41d87-6e30-1557-7991-0b7bca615be1@linux.intel.com>
On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 06:18:59PM +0300, Mathias Nyman wrote:
> On 20.5.2021 23.30, Thinh Nguyen wrote:
> > As for the xhci driver, there maybe a case where the stream URB never
> > gets to complete because the transaction err_count is not properly
> > updated. The err_count for transaction error is stored in ep_ring, but
> > the xhci driver may not be able to lookup the correct ep_ring based on
> > TRB address for streams. There are cases for streams where the event
> > TRBs have their TRB pointer field cleared to '0' (xhci spec section
> > 4.12.2). If the xhci driver doesn't see ep_ring for transaction error,
> > it automatically does a soft-retry. This is seen from one of our
> > testings that the driver was repeatedly doing soft-retry until the class
> > driver timed out.
> >
> > Hi Mathias, maybe you have some comment on this? Thanks.
>
> This is true, if TRB pointer is 0 then there is no retry limit for soft retry.
> We should add one and prevent a loop. after e few soft resets we can end with a
> hard reset to clear the host side endpoint halt.
>
> We don't know the URB that was being tansferred during the error, and can't
> give it back with a proper error code.
> In that sense we still end up waiting for a timeout and someone to cancel
> the urb.
That's not good. There may not be a timeout; drivers expect transfers
to complete with a failure, not to be retried indefinitely.
However, if you do know which endpoint/stream the error is connected to,
you should be able to get the URB. It will be the first one queued for
that endpoint/stream.
Alan Stern
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-24 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-19 16:14 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [syzbot] INFO: rcu detected stall in tx Guido Kiener
2021-05-19 17:35 ` Alan Stern
2021-05-19 19:38 ` Thinh Nguyen
2021-05-20 2:01 ` Alan Stern
2021-05-20 20:30 ` Thinh Nguyen
2021-05-20 21:05 ` Recovering from transaction errors [was: Re: [syzbot] INFO: rcu detected stall in tx] Alan Stern
2021-05-20 21:23 ` Thinh Nguyen
2021-05-21 1:21 ` Alan Stern
2021-05-21 2:12 ` Thinh Nguyen
2021-05-21 14:34 ` Alan Stern
2021-05-21 20:00 ` Thinh Nguyen
2021-05-24 15:18 ` [syzbot] INFO: rcu detected stall in tx Mathias Nyman
2021-05-24 18:55 ` Alan Stern [this message]
2021-05-24 19:23 ` Thinh Nguyen
2021-05-24 22:16 ` Mathias Nyman
2021-05-24 22:48 ` Thinh Nguyen
2021-05-19 18:04 ` Re: Re: Re: Re: " Lee Jones
2021-05-20 21:25 Guido Kiener
2021-05-21 1:24 ` Alan Stern
2021-05-21 22:17 ` guido
2021-05-22 2:13 ` Alan Stern
[not found] <000000000000a9b79905c04e25a0@google.com>
2021-04-19 7:27 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2021-06-28 6:38 ` Zhang, Qiang
2021-06-28 14:17 ` Alan Stern
2021-06-27 20:20 ` syzbot
2021-09-04 7:55 ` syzbot
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