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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] HID: picoLCD updates
Hi Jiri,

On Wed, 15 August 2012 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> I see. Alan Stern has fixed a huge pile of things in this area in 3.6-rc1.
> I have expected all of those to actually be on theoretical problems not
> ever having happened in the wild, but it might be that you are actually
> chasing on of those.
>
> Could you please retest with latest Linus' tree (or at least eb055fd0560b)
> to see whether this hasn't actually been fixed already by Alan's series?

I've started trying that out, it seems Alan's work improved things.

For the first few attempts I have not seen SLAB corruptions, though after
a few rounds I hit accumulation of the following messages:
[ 297.174828] hid-picolcd 0003:04D8:C002.0003: output queue full
[ 297.181098] hid-picolcd 0003:04D8:C002.0003: output queue full
[ 297.187820] hid-picolcd 0003:04D8:C002.0003: output queue full
[ 297.194087] hid-picolcd 0003:04D8:C002.0003: output queue full

with sporadically in between:
[ 292.668019] hid-picolcd 0003:04D8:C002.0003: usb_submit_urb(out) failed: -1

At first glance I think the queue filling up and never draining is caused
by hid_hw_stop() stalling the queue and the time between both being just too
short.
Maybe me (un)binding on hid-picolcd driver level is the major cause of this
and (un)binding at lower usb level would kill the queue thus preventing
it just growing until full...


Is there a proper way to do rate-limiting or throttling when submitting
reports (which are the urbs deeper in the stack) and catch -ENODEV early
while remove() is delayed for locking reasons?
At least until 3.5 submitting reports provides no return value for driver
which could convey errors like -ENODEV, -EBUSY.



After a few bind-unbind iterations I have also hit a race in hid-picolcd
with regard to fbdefio.
That looks like chicken-egg release sequencing between hid-picolcd and
fb_info subdev -- though I'm wondering how that happens as the only framebuffer
user I know of - fbcon - should have stopped using it after
unregister_framebuffer() returned and released the last reference!

But that part can be improved rather easily with a new spinlock synchronizing
interoperation between hid side and framebuffer side.

Thanks,
Bruno


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