Re: [PATCH resend] [media] uvcvideo: zero seq number when disabling stream

From: Hans Yang
Date: Thu Oct 19 2017 - 03:24:29 EST


Hi Laurent and Guennadi,

On 2017å10æ18æ 16:52, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
Hi Laurent,

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

Hi Hans,

(CC'ing Guennadi Liakhovetski)

Thank you for the patch.

On Friday, 15 September 2017 09:27:51 EEST Hans Yang wrote:
For bulk-based devices, when disabling the video stream,
in addition to issue CLEAR_FEATURE(HALT), it is better to set
alternate setting 0 as well or the sequnce number in host
side will probably not reset to zero.

The USB 2.0 specificatin states in the description of the SET_INTERFACE
request that "If a device only supports a default setting for the specified
interface, then a STALL may be returned in the Status stage of the request".

The Linux implementation of usb_set_interface() deals with this by handling
STALL conditions and manually clearing HALT for all endpoints in the
interface, but I'm still concerned that this change could break existing bulk-
based cameras. Do you know what other operating systems do when disabling the
stream on bulk cameras ? According to a comment in the driver Windows calls
CLEAR_FEATURE(HALT), but the situation might have changed since that was
tested.

Sorry I did not mention that it is about SS bulk-based cameras using sequence number technique.
From my observations, invoking usb_clear_halt() will reset the endpoint in the device side via CLEAR_FEATURE(HALT)
and reset the sequence number as well; however usb_reset_endpoint() does not reset the host side endpoint with xhci driver,
then the sequence number will mismatch in next time stream enable.
I can always observe this through a bus analyzer on Linux implementation whatever X86 or ARM based.
This is not observed on the Windows.


Guennadi, how do your bulk-based cameras handle this ?

I don't know what design decisions are implemented there, but I tested a
couple of cameras for sending a STREAMOFF after a few captured buffers,
sleeping for a couple of seconds, requeuing buffers, sending STREAMON and
capturing a few more - that seems to have worked. "Seems" because I only
used a modified version of capture-example, I haven't checked buffer
contents.

BTW, Hans, may I ask - what cameras did you use?

I have three SS bulk-based cameras as follows:
e-con Systems See3CAM_CU130 (2560:c1d0)
Leopard ZED (2b03:f580)
Intel(R) RealSense(TM) Camera SR300 (8086:0aa5)

I can observe the same issue on all above;
besides, to reproduce issue do not let the camera enter suspend because it will *help* to reset the sequence number through usb_set_interface(0).


Thanks
Guennadi

Then in next time video stream start, the device will expect
host starts packet from 0 sequence number but host actually
continue the sequence number from last transaction and this
causes transaction errors.

Do you mean the DATA0/DATA1 toggle ? Why does the host continue toggling the
PID from the last transation ? The usb_clear_halt() function calls
usb_reset_endpoint() which should reset the DATA PID toggle.

This commit fixes this by adding set alternate setting 0 back
as what isoch-based devices do.

Below error message will also be eliminated for some devices:
uvcvideo: Non-zero status (-71) in video completion handler.

Signed-off-by: Hans Yang <hansy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c index fb86d6af398d..ad80c2a6da6a 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
@@ -1862,10 +1862,9 @@ int uvc_video_enable(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
int enable)

if (!enable) {
uvc_uninit_video(stream, 1);
- if (stream->intf->num_altsetting > 1) {
- usb_set_interface(stream->dev->udev,
+ usb_set_interface(stream->dev->udev,
stream->intfnum, 0);
- } else {
+ if (stream->intf->num_altsetting == 1) {
/* UVC doesn't specify how to inform a bulk-based device
* when the video stream is stopped. Windows sends a
* CLEAR_FEATURE(HALT) request to the video streaming

--
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


Regards,
Hans Yang
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