[PATCH v2 4/4] usb: gadget: uvc: retry vb2_reqbufs() with vb_vmalloc_memops if use_sg fail
From: Xu Yang
Date: Tue Jan 13 2026 - 04:53:52 EST
Based on the reality[1][2] that vb2_dma_sg_alloc() can't alloc buffer with
device DMA limits, those device will always get below error: "swiotlb
buffer is full (sz: 393216 bytes), total 65536 (slots), used 2358 (slots)"
and the uvc gadget function can't work at all.
The videobuf2-dma-sg.c driver doesn't has a formal improve about this issue
till now. For UVC gadget, the videobuf2 subsystem doesn't do dma_map() on
vmalloc returned big buffer when allocate the video buffers, however, it do
it for dma_sg returned buffer. So the issue happens for vb2_dma_sg_alloc().
To workaround the issue, lets retry vb2_reqbufs() with
vb_vmalloc_memops if it fails to allocate buffer with vb2_dma_sg_memops.
If use vmalloced buffer, UVC gadget will allocate some small buffers for
each usb_request to do dma transfer, then uvc driver will memcopy data
from big buffer to small buffer.
Link[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20230828075420.2009568-1-anle.pan@xxxxxxx/
Link[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20230914145812.12851-1-hui.fang@xxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@xxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- add more information in commit message
---
drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_queue.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_queue.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_queue.c
index 21d80322cb6148ed87eb77f453a1f1644e4923ae..586e5524c171f115d98af5dda43fb800466f46d2 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_queue.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_queue.c
@@ -182,7 +182,15 @@ int uvcg_alloc_buffers(struct uvc_video_queue *queue,
{
int ret;
+retry:
ret = vb2_reqbufs(&queue->queue, rb);
+ if (ret < 0 && queue->use_sg) {
+ uvc_trace(UVC_TRACE_IOCTL,
+ "failed to alloc buffer with sg enabled, try non-sg mode\n");
+ queue->use_sg = 0;
+ queue->queue.mem_ops = &vb2_vmalloc_memops;
+ goto retry;
+ }
return ret ? ret : rb->count;
}
--
2.34.1