RE: [REGRESSION] usb: gadget: f_fs: Allow scatter-gather buffers

From: Yang, Fei
Date: Mon May 20 2019 - 17:54:31 EST


>>>> One question that comes to my mind is this: Does the USB
>>>> transmission stall (e.g. endpoint stall) or not? In other words, is
>>>> adb connection broken because USB stops transmitting anything, or
>>>> because the data is transmitted but its integrity is broken during
>>>> transmission and that causes adb/adbd confusion which results in stopping their operation?
>>>> Does anything keep happening on FunctionFS when adb connection is
>>>> broken?
>>>
>>>Any discoveries about the problem?
>>
>> In my debugging, I'm seeing a lot of requests queued up through
>> ffs_epfile_io (returning -EIOCBQUEUED), but only a few of them came back through ffs_epfile_async_io_complete -> ffs_user_copy_worker.
>> I donât think there is a USB transmission stall though, because if I
>> manually disable io_data->use_sg, everything goes back to normal. So it looks more likely to be a buffer handling problem in the DWC3 driver.
>
> Yea, I also did reconfirm that reverting 772a7a724f6, or setting
> gadget->sg_supported to false makes the isssue go away.
>
> And after spending a bunch of time trying to trace through the code last week, in particular the sg_supported checks, but I'm not seeing anything that is standing out with the f_fs logic.
>
> I'd start to agree it might be a buffer handling problem in dwc3, but it feels odd that I'm also seeing this w/ dwc2 hardware as well. Maybe the same bug was copied into both drivers?
>
> I'll try to dig a little on that theory today.

One of the problems appears to be that req->num_mapped_sgs was left uninitialized. I made the following change and got a lot more requests completed.
However this change is not sufficient to solve the adb issue, the usb requests would eventually get stuck without getting a matching ffs_epfile_async_io_complete.

@@ -1067,6 +1067,7 @@ static ssize_t ffs_epfile_io(struct file *file, struct ffs_io_data *io_data)
req->buf = NULL;
req->sg = io_data->sgt.sgl;
req->num_sgs = io_data->sgt.nents;
+ req->num_mapped_sgs = req->num_sgs;
} else {
req->buf = data;
}
@@ -1110,6 +1111,7 @@ static ssize_t ffs_epfile_io(struct file *file, struct ffs_io_data *io_data)
req->buf = NULL;
req->sg = io_data->sgt.sgl;
req->num_sgs = io_data->sgt.nents;
+ req->num_mapped_sgs = req->num_sgs;
} else {
req->buf = data;
}