[PATCH] rm "automagic resubmit" for usb interrupt transfers
Here's that promised patch to remove the problematic "automagic resubmit" mode from the API for interrupt transfers. It covers the core (including main HCDs) and a few essential drivers. All urbs now obey a simple rule: submit them once, then wait for some completion callback. Or unlink the urb if you're impatient, canceling the i/o request (which may have been partially completed). Bulk and interrupt transfers now behave the same at the API level, except that only interrupt transfers have bandwidth failure modes. Previously, interrupt transfers were different from bulk transfers in several ways that made limited sense. The only thing that's supposed to be special is achieving service latency guarantees by using the reserved periodic bandwidth. But there were a lot of other restrictions, plus HCD-dependent behaviors/bugs. Doing something like sending a 97 byte message to a device portably was a thing of pain, since the low-level "one packet per interval" rule was pushed up to drivers instead of being handled inside HCDs like it is for bulk, and sending a final "short" packet meant an urb unlink/relink. (Fixing this required UHCI to use a queue of TDs, like EHCI and OHCI; fixed by 2.5.44, and a small change in this patch. I'm not sure the unlink/relink issues have ever been really addressed.) Neither 1-msec transfer intervals nor USB 2.0 "high bandwidth" mode can reliably be serviced without a multi-buffered queue of interrupt transfers. (Comes almost for free with TD queueing; as of 2.5.44 all HCDs should do this.) And then there's "automagic resubmission", which made HCDs keep urbs during their complete() callbacks in a rather curious state ... half-owned by HCD, half-owned by device driver, not exactly linked but maybe not unlinked either. Bug-prone, and hard to test. So that's all gone now! This particular patch - updates the main hcds to use normal urb-completion logic for interrupt transfers, nothing special. (*) - makes usbcore (hub and root hub drivers) expect that, and removes an old kernel 2.3 "urb state confusion" workaround. (urb->dev is no longer nulled to distinguish unlinked urbs, since there's no longer a "half-in/half-out" state.) also the relevent kerneldoc is updated. - enables the 'usbtest' support for interrupt transfers, in both queued and non-queued modes. (but I haven't made time to test this ... the hcds "should" be fine since they use the same code now for bulk and interrupt, and bulk checked out.) - teaches hid-core, usbkbd, and usbmouse how to resubmit interrupt transfers explicitly. usb keyboards/mice work, but some less-common HID devices won't. - updated usb/net drivers (catc, kaweth, pegasus, rtl8150) But it doesn't update all device drivers that use interrupt transfers. The failure mode for un-converted drivers will be that interrupts after the first one get lost, and the fix for those drivers will be simple (see what the drivers here do). (*) It doesn't touch non-{E,O,U}HCI HCDs, like the SL-811HS, since those changes will require hardware as well as some quality time with 'usbtest'.
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