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    USB: EHCI: go back to using the system clock for QH unlinks · 004c1968
    Alan Stern 提交于
    This patch (as1477) fixes a problem affecting a few types of EHCI
    controller.  Contrary to what one might expect, these controllers
    automatically stop their internal frame counter when no ports are
    enabled.  Since ehci-hcd currently relies on the frame counter for
    determining when it should unlink QHs from the async schedule, those
    controllers run into trouble: The frame counter stops and the QHs
    never get unlinked.
    
    Some systems have also experienced other problems traced back to
    commit b9638011 (USB: ehci-hcd unlink
    speedups), which made the original switch from using the system clock
    to using the frame counter.  It never became clear what the reason was
    for these problems, but evidently it is related to use of the frame
    counter.
    
    To fix all these problems, this patch more or less reverts that commit
    and goes back to using the system clock.  But this can't be done
    cleanly because other changes have since been made to the scan_async()
    subroutine.  One of these changes involved the tricky logic that tries
    to avoid rescanning QHs that have already been seen when the scanning
    loop is restarted, which happens whenever an URB is given back.
    Switching back to clock-based unlinks would make this logic even more
    complicated.
    
    Therefore the new code doesn't rescan the entire async list whenever a
    giveback occurs.  Instead it rescans only the current QH and continues
    on from there.  This requires the use of a separate pointer to keep
    track of the next QH to scan, since the current QH may be unlinked
    while the scanning is in progress.  That new pointer must be global,
    so that it can be adjusted forward whenever the _next_ QH gets
    unlinked.  (uhci-hcd uses this same trick.)
    
    Simplification of the scanning loop removes a level of indentation,
    which accounts for the size of the patch.  The amount of code changed
    is relatively small, and it isn't exactly a reversion of the
    b9638011 commit.
    
    This fixes Bugzilla #32432.
    Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
    CC: <stable@kernel.org>
    Tested-by: NMatej Kenda <matejken@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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