linux/tools
Nobuo Iwata a38711a88b usbip: auto retry for concurrent attach
This patch adds recovery from false busy state on concurrent attach
operation.

The procedure of attach operation is as below.
1) Find an unused port in /sys/devices/platform/vhci_hcd/status.
(userspace)
2) Request attach found port to driver through
/sys/devices/platform/vhci_hcd/attach. (userspace)
3) Lock table, reserve requested port and unlock table. (vhci driver)

Attaching more than one remote devices concurrently, same unused port
number will be found in step-1. Then one request will succeed and
others will fail even though there are some unused ports.

With this patch, driver returns EBUSY when requested port has already
been used. In this case, attach command retries from step-1: finding
another unused port. If there's no unused port, the attach operation
will fail in step-1. Otherwise it retries automatically using another
unused port.

vhci-hcd's interface (only errno) is changed as following.

Current	errno	New errno	Condition
EINVAL		same as left	specified port number is in invalid
				range
EAGAIN		same as left	platform_get_drvdata() failed
EINVAL		same as left	specified socket fd is not valid
EINVAL		EBUSY		specified port status is not free

The errno EBUSY was not used in userspace
src/usbip_attach.c:import_device(). It is needed to distinguish the
condition to be able to retry from other unrecoverable errors.

It is possible to avoid this failure by introducing userspace exclusive
control. But it's exaggerated for this special condition. The locking
itself has done in driver.
As an alternate solution, userspace doesn't specify port number, driver
searches unused port and it returns port number to the userspace. With
this solution, the interface is much different than this patch.

Signed-off-by: Nobuo Iwata <nobuo.iwata@fujixerox.co.jp>
Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-08-31 18:08:45 +02:00
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accounting
arch tools/include: Sync kernel ABI headers with tooling headers 2017-05-24 09:00:21 +02:00
build bpf, s390: fix build for libbpf and selftest suite 2017-08-04 11:18:01 -07:00
cgroup
firewire
gpio gpio-hammer: fix make consumer_label suitable to work on gpio-nails 2017-01-26 16:29:09 +01:00
hv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-07-05 12:31:59 -07:00
iio iio: tools: generic_buffer: increase trigger length 2017-05-07 16:08:04 +01:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-07-05 12:31:59 -07:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: add '-f help' to get the available event list 2017-07-26 19:04:53 +02:00
laptop
leds tools/leds: Add led_hw_brightness_mon program 2017-02-14 22:20:23 +01:00
lguest Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-01 20:51:12 -07:00
lib bpf, s390: fix build for libbpf and selftest suite 2017-08-04 11:18:01 -07:00
net tools: bpf_jit_disasm: Handle large images. 2017-06-14 15:03:22 -04:00
nfsd
objtool objtool: Fix sibling call detection logic 2017-07-08 10:29:48 +02:00
pci tools: PCI: Add sample test script to invoke pcitest 2017-04-28 10:23:20 -05:00
pcmcia
perf Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-21 11:12:48 -07:00
power ACPI updates for v4.13-rc1 2017-07-04 14:16:49 -07:00
scripts kbuild: simplify silent build (-s) detection 2017-06-06 09:01:12 +09:00
spi spi: spidev_test: add option to continuously transfer data 2017-03-21 18:44:40 +00:00
testing bpf: fix selftest/bpf/test_pkt_md_access on s390x 2017-08-07 10:06:27 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb usbip: auto retry for concurrent attach 2017-08-31 18:08:45 +02:00
virtio tools/virtio: fix spelling mistake: "wakeus" -> "wakeups" 2017-05-09 16:43:24 +03:00
vm tools/vm: add missing Makefile rules 2017-02-22 16:41:26 -08:00
Makefile tools: Add install make target for liblockdep 2017-06-05 09:28:08 +02:00