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    can: kvaser_usb: Reset all URB tx contexts upon channel close · 5da0a0c9
    Ahmed S. Darwish authored
    commit 889b77f7 upstream.
    
    Flooding the Kvaser CAN to USB dongle with multiple reads and
    writes in very high frequency (*), closing the CAN channel while
    all the transmissions are on (#), opening the device again (@),
    then sending a small number of packets would make the driver
    enter an almost infinite loop of:
    
    [....]
    [15959.853988] kvaser_usb 4-3:1.0 can0: cannot find free context
    [15959.853990] kvaser_usb 4-3:1.0 can0: cannot find free context
    [15959.853991] kvaser_usb 4-3:1.0 can0: cannot find free context
    [15959.853993] kvaser_usb 4-3:1.0 can0: cannot find free context
    [15959.853994] kvaser_usb 4-3:1.0 can0: cannot find free context
    [15959.853995] kvaser_usb 4-3:1.0 can0: cannot find free context
    [....]
    
    _dragging the whole system down_ in the process due to the
    excessive logging output.
    
    Initially, this has caused random panics in the kernel due to a
    buggy error recovery path.  That got fixed in an earlier commit.(%)
    This patch aims at solving the root cause. -->
    
    16 tx URBs and contexts are allocated per CAN channel per USB
    device. Such URBs are protected by:
    
    a) A simple atomic counter, up to a value of MAX_TX_URBS (16)
    b) A flag in each URB context, stating if it's free
    c) The fact that ndo_start_xmit calls are themselves protected
       by the networking layers higher above
    
    After grabbing one of the tx URBs, if the driver noticed that all
    of them are now taken, it stops the netif transmission queue.
    Such queue is worken up again only if an acknowedgment was received
    from the firmware on one of our earlier-sent frames.
    
    Meanwhile, upon channel close (#), the driver sends a CMD_STOP_CHIP
    to the firmware, effectively closing all further communication.  In
    the high traffic case, the atomic counter remains at MAX_TX_URBS,
    and all the URB contexts remain marked as active.  While opening
    the channel again (@), it cannot send any further frames since no
    more free tx URB contexts are available.
    
    Reset all tx URB contexts upon CAN channel close.
    
    (*) 50 parallel instances of `cangen0 -g 0 -ix`
    (#) `ifconfig can0 down`
    (@) `ifconfig can0 up`
    (%) "can: kvaser_usb: Don't free packets when tight on URBs"
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAhmed S. Darwish <ahmed.darwish@valeo.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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