Re: [PATCH 1/1] usb: xhci: apply XHCI_AVOID_BEI quirk to Intel ValleyView and LynxPoint LP

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On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:27:29AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> When a device with an isochronous endpoint is plugged into the Intel
> xHCI host controller, and the driver submits multiple frames per URB,
> the xHCI driver will set the Block Event Interrupt (BEI) flag on all
> but the last TD for the URB. This causes the host controller to place
> an event on the event ring, but not send an interrupt. When the last
> TD for the URB completes, BEI is cleared, and we get an interrupt for
> the whole URB.
> 
> However,  under some Intel xHCI host controllers like ValleyView and
> Lynx Point LP, if the event ring is full of events from transfers with
> BEI set, a "Event Ring is Full" event will be posted to the last entry
> of the event ring, but no interrupt is generated. Host will cease all
> transfer and command executions  and  wait untill software completes
> handling the pending events in event ring. That means xHC stops but
> event of "event ring is full" is not notified. As the result, the xHC
> looks like dead to user.
> 
> The patch is to apply XHCI_AVOID_BEI to Intel VallyView and Lynx Point
> LP devices. And it should be backported to kernels as old as 3.0, that
> contains the commit 69e848c2090aebba5698a1620604c7dccb448684 "Intel
> xhci: Support EHCI/xHCI port switching."
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Please use scripts/get_maintainer.pl to send a patch to the proper
mailing lists (hint, just stable is not correct...)

thanks,

greg k-h
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