RE: sitd OUT s-mask cross frame boundary

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Thanks, Alan,

At least we know that it is not a hardware bug.

Thanks,
Julie.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-usb-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-usb-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Stern
> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:31 PM
> To: Julie Zhu
> Cc: linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: sitd OUT s-mask cross frame boundary
> 
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Julie Zhu wrote:
> 
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > We are testing the USB Host controller from Xilinx using a PowerPC
> > platform. This test is FS isochronous OUT, with the maxp 1023 and
> > interval 1ms. We noticed that with direct connection between the
host
> > controller and the FS iso OUT device, the s-mask is 0x3f. And the
test
> > finished fine.
> >
> > However, if the device is connected through a FS hub, then the sitd
> > s-mask becomes 0x1f8, this makes the 6th packet crosses the frame
> > boundary. From EHCI spec page 104, section 4.12.3.1, it says under
Case
> > 2a:
> >
> > 	Software must never schedule full-speed isochronous OUTs across
> > an H-Frame boundary.
> >
> > The test therefore failed, because the host controller never put the
6th
> > packet out.
> >
> > The kernel version is 2.6.30.
> >
> > The function sitd_slot_ok() shifts the s-mask by the starting frame
> > number. It does check for crossing frame boundary for IN case, but
never
> > does anything for OUT. I wonder whether it is a bug? Or, it is
intended?
> 
> It is a bug.  The code in ehci-sched.c for dealing with split
> transactions needs a lot of work.  For example, it doesn't support
> FSTNs.  In the case you noticed, the code checks for CSPLITs crossing
a
> frame boundary but not for SSPLITs.
> 
> Alan Stern
> 
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