USB: Support for bandwidth allocation.

Originally, the USB core had no support for allocating bandwidth when a
particular configuration or alternate setting for an interface was
selected.  Instead, the device driver's URB submission would fail if
there was not enough bandwidth for a periodic endpoint.  Drivers could
work around this, by using the scatter-gather list API to guarantee
bandwidth.

This patch adds host controller API to allow the USB core to allocate or
deallocate bandwidth for an endpoint.  Endpoints are added to or dropped
from a copy of the current schedule by calling add_endpoint() or
drop_endpoint(), and then the schedule is atomically evaluated with a
call to check_bandwidth().  This allows all the endpoints for a new
configuration or alternate setting to be added at the same time that the
endpoints from the old configuration or alt setting are dropped.

Endpoints must be added to the schedule before any URBs are submitted to
them.  The HCD must be allowed to reject a new configuration or alt
setting before the control transfer is sent to the device requesting the
change.  It may reject the change because there is not enough bandwidth,
not enough internal resources (such as memory on an embedded host
controller), or perhaps even for security reasons in a virtualized
environment.

If the call to check_bandwidth() fails, the USB core must call
reset_bandwidth().  This causes the schedule to be reverted back to the
state it was in just after the last successful check_bandwidth() call.

If the call succeeds, the host controller driver (and hardware) will have
changed its internal state to match the new configuration or alternate
setting.  The USB core can then issue a control transfer to the device to
change the configuration or alt setting.  This allows the core to test new
configurations or alternate settings before unbinding drivers bound to
interfaces in the old configuration.

WIP:

The USB core must add endpoints from all interfaces in a configuration
to the schedule, because a driver may claim that interface at any time.
A slight optimization might be to add the endpoints to the schedule once
a driver claims that interface.  FIXME

This patch does not cover changing alternate settings, but it does
handle a configuration change or de-configuration.  FIXME

The code for managing the schedule is currently HCD specific.  A generic
scheduling algorithm could be added for host controllers without
built-in scheduling support.  For now, if a host controller does not
define the check_bandwidth() function, the call to
usb_hcd_check_bandwidth() will always succeed.

Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
index 02eb0ef..0885d4a 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
@@ -241,6 +241,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_unanchor_urb);
  * If the USB subsystem can't allocate sufficient bandwidth to perform
  * the periodic request, submitting such a periodic request should fail.
  *
+ * For devices under xHCI, the bandwidth is reserved at configuration time, or
+ * when the alt setting is selected.  If there is not enough bus bandwidth, the
+ * configuration/alt setting request will fail.  Therefore, submissions to
+ * periodic endpoints on devices under xHCI should never fail due to bandwidth
+ * constraints.
+ *
  * Device drivers must explicitly request that repetition, by ensuring that
  * some URB is always on the endpoint's queue (except possibly for short
  * periods during completion callacks).  When there is no longer an urb