USB: Improve usb_fill_* documentation
Document the transfer buffer requirement. That is, the buffer must be DMAble - otherwise data corruption might occur. Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220-usb-dmadoc-v4-0-74a045bf14f4@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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@ -1626,14 +1626,25 @@ struct urb {
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* @urb: pointer to the urb to initialize.
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* @dev: pointer to the struct usb_device for this urb.
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* @pipe: the endpoint pipe
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* @setup_packet: pointer to the setup_packet buffer
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* @transfer_buffer: pointer to the transfer buffer
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* @setup_packet: pointer to the setup_packet buffer. The buffer must be
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* suitable for DMA.
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* @transfer_buffer: pointer to the transfer buffer. The buffer must be
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* suitable for DMA.
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* @buffer_length: length of the transfer buffer
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* @complete_fn: pointer to the usb_complete_t function
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* @context: what to set the urb context to.
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*
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* Initializes a control urb with the proper information needed to submit
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* it to a device.
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*
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* The transfer buffer and the setup_packet buffer will most likely be filled
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* or read via DMA. The simplest way to get a buffer that can be DMAed to is
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* allocating it via kmalloc() or equivalent, even for very small buffers.
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* If the buffers are embedded in a bigger structure, there is a risk that
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* the buffer itself, the previous fields and/or the next fields are corrupted
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* due to cache incoherencies; or slowed down if they are evicted from the
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* cache. For more information, check &struct urb.
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*
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*/
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static inline void usb_fill_control_urb(struct urb *urb,
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struct usb_device *dev,
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* @urb: pointer to the urb to initialize.
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* @dev: pointer to the struct usb_device for this urb.
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* @pipe: the endpoint pipe
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* @transfer_buffer: pointer to the transfer buffer
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* @transfer_buffer: pointer to the transfer buffer. The buffer must be
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* suitable for DMA.
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* @buffer_length: length of the transfer buffer
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* @complete_fn: pointer to the usb_complete_t function
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* @context: what to set the urb context to.
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*
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* Initializes a bulk urb with the proper information needed to submit it
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* to a device.
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*
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* Refer to usb_fill_control_urb() for a description of the requirements for
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* transfer_buffer.
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*/
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static inline void usb_fill_bulk_urb(struct urb *urb,
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struct usb_device *dev,
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* @urb: pointer to the urb to initialize.
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* @dev: pointer to the struct usb_device for this urb.
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* @pipe: the endpoint pipe
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* @transfer_buffer: pointer to the transfer buffer
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* @transfer_buffer: pointer to the transfer buffer. The buffer must be
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* suitable for DMA.
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* @buffer_length: length of the transfer buffer
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* @complete_fn: pointer to the usb_complete_t function
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* @context: what to set the urb context to.
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* Initializes a interrupt urb with the proper information needed to submit
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* it to a device.
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*
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* Refer to usb_fill_control_urb() for a description of the requirements for
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* transfer_buffer.
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*
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* Note that High Speed and SuperSpeed(+) interrupt endpoints use a logarithmic
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* encoding of the endpoint interval, and express polling intervals in
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* microframes (eight per millisecond) rather than in frames (one per
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