On Thu, 12 Nov 2015, Felipe Balbi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> writes:
> > [Adding linux-usb to the CC list]
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> I have been running into problems trying to use a USB device port
> >> on an Acme System's Arietta G25 (Atmel at91sam9g25 hence at91sam9x5
> >> family in the kernel) as a USB mass storage gadget. Since the problem
> >> may be anywhere in the stack, I have sent this post to a USB expert
> >> as well as at91sam9x5 experts.
> >> 
> >> In all cases the mass storage device appears on the host system
> >> after I do 'modprobe g_mass_storage file=/tmp/backing_file' on the
> >> Arietta G25:
> >> 
> >> # lsscsi
> >> [0:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      INTEL SSDSC2BW18 DC32  /dev/sda
> >> [6:0:0:0]    disk    Linux    File-Stor Gadget 0400  /dev/sdb
> >> 
> >> However if the host port is USB 3.0 (e.g. on my Lenovo
> >> X240 laptop) and the kernel is in the 4.0 series then all attempts
> >
> > You mean if the _gadget's_ kernel is >= 4.0, right?  Not the host's 
> > kernel.
> >
> >> by the host to read data fail on that mass storage gadget.
> >> For example, I see lots of this in my syslog:
> >> 
> >>    sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb]
> >>    Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
> >>    sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB:
> >>    Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
> >>    end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
> >>    Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
> >>    usb 2-2: reset high-speed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
> >>    xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep 
> >> ffff8800ae58f180
> >>    xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: xHCI xhci_drop_endpoint called with disabled ep 
> >> ffff8800ae58f1c0
> >>    ...
> >> 
> >> I have tried around 6 different kernels in the lk 3.19 to lk 4.3.0
> >> on the mass storage gadget (Arietta) with 3.19 works while lk 4.0.0-rc4
> >> is the lowest (in my sample) that fails. My host system is Ubuntu 14.04
> >> with either its stock kernel (3.13.0-68-generic) or my own hand built
> >> lk 4.3.0; both react the same way to this problem.
> >> 
> >> Attached are the outputs of 'lsusb -v' for that mass storage gadget as
> >> seen on the host system. The "319" works while the other two fail. One
> >> difference is that wMaxPacketSize is 512 bytes for "319" and 64 bytes
> >> for the other two. Is that significant? [The block size on most
> >> storage devices is typically 512 bytes.]
> >
> > That most certainly _is_ significant.  Almost nothing will work right
> > if the maxpacket size is wrong.
> 
> sounds like this gadget is using FS ?

No.  See this line from above:

> >>    usb 2-2: reset high-speed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd

> >> Also, my problem seems to be sensitive to the host port being USB
> >> 3.0 since I have an older Lenovo X201 with USB 2.0 ports that does
> >> _not_ exhibit this problem. IOW when I connect my Arietta G25 mass
> >> storage gadget to the X201, it works properly for all G25 kernels
> >> that I have tried.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Also tested a W7 host box with both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 host ports
> >> and my mass storage gadget worked properly with lk 4.0.0-rc4 on
> >> both 2.0 and 3.0 ports. The Device Manager in W7 shows that it has
> >> xHCI driver present.
> >
> > I don't know what's going on with Windows, but this seems like a bug in 
> > either the at91sam9g25 UDC driver or the composite gadget core.
> 
> I'd blame UDC driver. We have several other UDCs working with the same
> configuration.

Sounds reasonable to me.  But that doesn't explain why it works okay 
with the older Lenovo X201 laptop.

Alan Stern

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