linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] HID: usbhid: defer LED setting to a workqueue

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Date:	Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:01:52 +0100
From:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
To:	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>
Cc:	jkosina@...e.cz, bleung@...omium.org, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
	olofj@...omium.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] HID: usbhid: defer LED setting to a workqueue

Am Donnerstag, 15. Dezember 2011, 07:43:09 schrieb Daniel Kurtz:

Hi,

> I'm sorry, I'm not seeing how using a workqueue to set the LEDs
> changes anything with respect to how the driver deals with USB reset.

You are unfortunately right. This means that the driver currently is already
buggy.
 
> With or without a workqueue, LED control urbs are being queued and/or
> submitted asynchronously to reset.  AFAICT, the only thing that
> changes here is exactly when __usbhid_submit_report() is called.  In
> the original case, this happens directly in the input event handler.
> In the workqueue case, it happens in a system worker thread some short
> time after the input handler finishes.

The current driver kills the ctrl URB in cease_io() which is not enough
to prevent new IO.

> Could you please be more specific about what this patch breaks and
> perhaps give some guidance on how to fix it?

It breaks nothing. It just continues a bug and I assumed it was not present.
Basically the work queue must do nothing after pre_reset() and post_reset()
ought to rerun the work in case some request came down during that time.

	Regards
		Oliver
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