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From: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
To: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: REGRESSION: usbdevfs: Use-scatter-gather-lists-for-large-bulk-transfers
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:40:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121011214059.2038.qmail@stuge.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121011213707.GA2187@polaris.bitmath.org>

Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> > Oh what fun (not). The best way to figure out what really is going
> > on is to get some usb level traces. Note my first hunch is that what
> > you're seeing is a device firmware bug, as this patch together with
> > a new libusb (which you seem to also have) will make bulk transfers
> > run slightly faster, which might be just enough to overwhelm your
> > device ...
> 
> Or, the large bulk transfer actually never worked in the first place.
> The list you gave me seemed boringly long, so I read the patch more
> closely instead. The fix below is the result. Greg, will you please
> take it through your tree?
> 
> Thanks,
> Henrik
> 
> From 40b70394747eea51fdd07cc8213dd6afd24b1b30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:27:04 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] usbdevfs: Fix broken scatter-gather transfer
> 
> The recently introduced handling of large bulk transfers is completely
> broken; the same user page is read over and over again. Fixed with
> this patch.
> 
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>

Acked-by: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-11 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-10 20:31 REGRESSION: usbdevfs: Use-scatter-gather-lists-for-large-bulk-transfers Henrik Rydberg
2012-10-10 20:34 ` Peter Stuge
2012-10-11  5:44   ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-10-11  6:50     ` Peter Stuge
2012-10-11  6:57       ` Xiaofan Chen
2012-10-11  7:12         ` Peter Stuge
2012-10-11 21:54       ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-10-11  8:21 ` Hans de Goede
2012-10-11 21:37   ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-10-11 21:40     ` Peter Stuge [this message]
2012-10-11 21:53     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-10-12 14:11       ` Hans de Goede
2012-10-12 15:10         ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-10-12 14:25     ` Alan Stern
2012-10-12 15:08       ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-10-12 15:10         ` Alan Stern
2012-10-14 15:40         ` Hans de Goede

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