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Add a new interface for userspace to preallocate memory that can be used with usbfs. This gives two primary benefits: - Zerocopy; data no longer needs to be copied between the userspace and the kernel, but can instead be read directly by the driver from userspace's buffers. This works for all kinds of transfers (even if nonsensical for control and interrupt transfers); isochronous also no longer need to memset() the buffer to zero to avoid leaking kernel data. - Once the buffers are allocated, USB transfers can no longer fail due to memory fragmentation; previously, long-running programs could run into problems finding a large enough contiguous memory chunk, especially on embedded systems or at high rates. Memory is allocated by using mmap() against the usbfs file descriptor, and similarly deallocated by munmap(). Once memory has been allocated, using it as pointers to a bulk or isochronous operation means you will automatically get zerocopy behavior. Note that this also means you cannot modify outgoing data until the transfer is complete. The same holds for data on the same cache lines as incoming data; DMA modifying them at the same time could lead to your changes being overwritten. There's a new capability USBDEVFS_CAP_MMAP that userspace can query to see if the running kernel supports this functionality, if just trying mmap() is not acceptable. Largely based on a patch by Markus Rechberger with some updates. The original patch can be found at: http://sundtek.de/support/devio_mmap_v0.4.diff Signed-off-by: Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@google.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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To understand all the Linux-USB framework, you'll use these resources:
* This source code. This is necessarily an evolving work, and
includes kerneldoc that should help you get a current overview.
("make pdfdocs", and then look at "usb.pdf" for host side and
"gadget.pdf" for peripheral side.) Also, Documentation/usb has
more information.
* The USB 2.0 specification (from www.usb.org), with supplements
such as those for USB OTG and the various device classes.
The USB specification has a good overview chapter, and USB
peripherals conform to the widely known "Chapter 9".
* Chip specifications for USB controllers. Examples include
host controllers (on PCs, servers, and more); peripheral
controllers (in devices with Linux firmware, like printers or
cell phones); and hard-wired peripherals like Ethernet adapters.
* Specifications for other protocols implemented by USB peripheral
functions. Some are vendor-specific; others are vendor-neutral
but just standardized outside of the www.usb.org team.
Here is a list of what each subdirectory here is, and what is contained in
them.
core/ - This is for the core USB host code, including the
usbfs files and the hub class driver ("hub_wq").
host/ - This is for USB host controller drivers. This
includes UHCI, OHCI, EHCI, and others that might
be used with more specialized "embedded" systems.
gadget/ - This is for USB peripheral controller drivers and
the various gadget drivers which talk to them.
Individual USB driver directories. A new driver should be added to the
first subdirectory in the list below that it fits into.
image/ - This is for still image drivers, like scanners or
digital cameras.
../input/ - This is for any driver that uses the input subsystem,
like keyboard, mice, touchscreens, tablets, etc.
../media/ - This is for multimedia drivers, like video cameras,
radios, and any other drivers that talk to the v4l
subsystem.
../net/ - This is for network drivers.
serial/ - This is for USB to serial drivers.
storage/ - This is for USB mass-storage drivers.
class/ - This is for all USB device drivers that do not fit
into any of the above categories, and work for a range
of USB Class specified devices.
misc/ - This is for all USB device drivers that do not fit
into any of the above categories.