tree 8267766a55be13cfb27422e8af20502d13df04f6
parent 03b56329f9bb5a1cb73d7dc659d529a9a9bf3acc
author Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com> 1391196385 -0800
committer Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com> 1391812202 -0800

xhci 1.0: Limit arbitrarily-aligned scatter gather.

xHCI 1.0 hosts have a set of requirements on how to align transfer
buffers on the endpoint rings called "TD fragment" rules.  When the
ax88179_178a driver added support for scatter gather in 3.12, with
commit 804fad45411b48233b48003e33a78f290d227c8 "USBNET: ax88179_178a:
enable tso if usb host supports sg dma", it broke the device under xHCI
1.0 hosts.  Under certain network loads, the device would see an
unexpected short packet from the host, which would cause the device to
stop sending ethernet packets, even through USB packets would still be
sent.

Commit 35773dac5f86 "usb: xhci: Link TRB must not occur within a USB
payload burst" attempted to fix this.  It was a quick hack to partially
implement the TD fragment rules.  However, it caused regressions in the
usb-storage layer and userspace USB drivers using libusb.  The patches
to attempt to fix this are too far reaching into the USB core, and we
really need to implement the TD fragment rules correctly in the xHCI
driver, instead of continuing to wallpaper over the issues.

Disable arbitrarily-aligned scatter-gather in the xHCI driver for 1.0
hosts.  Only the ax88179_178a driver checks the no_sg_constraint flag,
so don't set it for 1.0 hosts.  This should not impact usb-storage or
usbfs behavior, since they pass down max packet sized aligned sg-list
entries (512 for USB 2.0 and 1024 for USB 3.0).

Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: Freddy Xin <freddy@asix.com.tw>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.12