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[linux-dvb] Re: Nova-s CAM/CI support



On Wednesday 12 May 2004 23:31, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 May 2004 20:11, you wrote:
> > I have tested the cam_* utils that were mentioned on the list recently,
> > and it seems that my problems with the CAM getting reset is not caused
> > by MythTV itself, but perhaps by either libdvbci (which I assume MythTV
> > uses) or the budget-ci driver?
> >
> > After running cam_test for a while I get "ERROR: CAM: Read failed: slot
> > 0, tcid 1". The error seems to occur pretty randomly (after half a
> > minute, a couple of minutes or even after an hour or so).
> >
> > The actual error message is printed from line 407 in libdvbci/ci.cc:
> > $ nl libdvb-0.5.4/libdvbci/ci.cc | grep "Read failed"
> >    407       esyslog("ERROR: CAM: Read failed: slot %d, tcid %d\n",
> > slot, tcid);
> >
> > I'd appreciate it if someone a bit more knowledgeable could take a look
> > at the logs below and tell me what's going on. I don't know how this
> > stuff works but to me it looks like there are two interrupts at the same
> > time, and somehow the driver thread gets confused by this?
>
> Hi, if you have a moment, can you give the attached patch a go? I've
> hopefully sorted out the locking....

Oops - found a slight locking bug, sorry.
Index: linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/linuxtv/dvb-kernel/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.c,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -a -u -b -r1.9 dvb_ca_en50221.c
--- linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.c	3 May 2004 16:29:27 -0000	1.9
+++ linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.c	12 May 2004 22:38:11 -0000
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
-#include <asm/semaphore.h>
+#include <asm/rwsem.h>
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 
 #include "dvb_ca_en50221.h"
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
         int link_buf_size;
 
         /* semaphore for syncing access to slot structure */
-        struct semaphore sem;
+        struct rw_semaphore sem;
 
         /* buffer for incoming packets */
         struct dvb_ringbuffer rx_buffer;
@@ -199,7 +199,6 @@
 static int dvb_ca_en50221_check_camstatus(struct dvb_ca_private* ca, int slot)
 {
         int slot_status;
-        int status;
         int cam_present_now;
         int cam_changed;
 
@@ -209,9 +208,7 @@
         }
 
         /* poll mode */
-        if ((status = down_interruptible(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem)) != 0) return status;
         slot_status = ca->pub->poll_slot_status(ca->pub, slot);
-        up(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
 
         cam_present_now = (slot_status & DVB_CA_EN50221_POLL_CAM_PRESENT) ? 1: 0;
         cam_changed = (slot_status & DVB_CA_EN50221_POLL_CAM_CHANGED) ? 1: 0;
@@ -550,11 +547,9 @@
 
         dprintk ("%s\n", __FUNCTION__);
 
-        /* acquire the slot */
-        if ((status = down_interruptible(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem)) != 0) return status;
-
         /* check if we have space for a link buf in the rx_buffer */
         if (ebuf == NULL) {
+		down_read(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
                 if (dvb_ringbuffer_free(&ca->slot_info[slot].rx_buffer) <
                     (ca->slot_info[slot].link_buf_size + DVB_RINGBUFFER_PKTHDRSIZE)) {
                         status = -EAGAIN;
@@ -564,11 +559,6 @@
 
         /* reset the interface if there's been a tx error */
         if ((status = ca->pub->read_cam_control(ca->pub, slot, CTRLIF_STATUS)) < 0) goto exit;
-        if (status & STATUSREG_TXERR) {
-                ca->slot_info[slot].slot_state = DVB_CA_SLOTSTATE_LINKINIT;
-                status = -EIO;
-                goto exit;
-        }
         if (!(status & STATUSREG_DA)) {
                 /* no data */
                 status = 0;
@@ -630,11 +620,10 @@
         if ((buf[1] & 0x80) == 0x00) {
                 wake_up_interruptible(&ca->wait_queue);
         }
-
         status = bytes_read;
 
 exit:
-        up(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
+	if (ebuf == NULL) up_read(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
         return status;
 }
 
@@ -662,16 +651,8 @@
         // sanity check
         if (bytes_write > ca->slot_info[slot].link_buf_size) return -EINVAL;
 
-        /* acquire the slot */
-        if ((status = down_interruptible(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem)) != 0) return status;
-
         /* reset the interface if there's been a tx error */
         if ((status = ca->pub->read_cam_control(ca->pub, slot, CTRLIF_STATUS)) < 0) goto exitnowrite;
-        if (status & STATUSREG_TXERR) {
-                ca->slot_info[slot].slot_state = DVB_CA_SLOTSTATE_LINKINIT;
-                status = -EIO;
-                goto exitnowrite;
-        }
 
         /* check if interface is actually waiting for us to read from it */
         if (status & STATUSREG_DA) {
@@ -711,7 +692,6 @@
         ca->pub->write_cam_control(ca->pub, slot, CTRLIF_COMMAND, IRQEN);
 
 exitnowrite:
-        up(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
         return status;
 }
 
@@ -729,16 +709,14 @@
  */
 static int dvb_ca_en50221_slot_shutdown(struct dvb_ca_private* ca, int slot)
 {
-        int status;
-
         dprintk ("%s\n", __FUNCTION__);
 
-        if ((status = down_interruptible(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem)) != 0) return status;
         ca->pub->slot_shutdown(ca->pub, slot);
         ca->slot_info[slot].slot_state = DVB_CA_SLOTSTATE_NONE;
+        down_write(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
         if (ca->slot_info[slot].rx_buffer.data) vfree(ca->slot_info[slot].rx_buffer.data);
         ca->slot_info[slot].rx_buffer.data = NULL;
-        up(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
+        up_write(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
 
         /* need to wake up all processes to check if they're now
            trying to write to a defunct CAM */
@@ -1266,7 +1244,7 @@
         while((slot_count < ca->slot_count) && (!found)) {
                 if (ca->slot_info[slot].slot_state != DVB_CA_SLOTSTATE_RUNNING) goto nextslot;
 
-                if ((*result = down_interruptible(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem)) != 0) return 1;
+                down_read(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
 
                 idx = dvb_ringbuffer_pkt_next(&ca->slot_info[slot].rx_buffer, -1, &fraglen);
                 while(idx != -1) {
@@ -1281,7 +1259,7 @@
                         idx = dvb_ringbuffer_pkt_next(&ca->slot_info[slot].rx_buffer, idx, &fraglen);
                 }
 
-                if (!found) up(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
+                if (!found) up_read(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
 
 nextslot:
                 slot = (slot + 1) % ca->slot_count;
@@ -1378,7 +1356,7 @@
         status = pktlen;
 
 exit:
-        up(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
+        up_read(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
         return status;
 }
 
@@ -1406,7 +1384,9 @@
 
         for(i=0; i< ca->slot_count; i++) {
                 if (ca->slot_info[i].slot_state == DVB_CA_SLOTSTATE_RUNNING) {
+		        down_write(&ca->slot_info[i].sem);
                         dvb_ringbuffer_flush(&ca->slot_info[i].rx_buffer);
+		        up_write(&ca->slot_info[i].sem);
                 }
         }
 
@@ -1464,7 +1444,7 @@
         dprintk ("%s\n", __FUNCTION__);
 
         if (dvb_ca_en50221_io_read_condition(ca, &result, &slot) == 1) {
-                up(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
+                up_read(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
                 mask |= POLLIN;
         }
 
@@ -1475,7 +1455,7 @@
         poll_wait(file, &ca->wait_queue, wait);
 
         if (dvb_ca_en50221_io_read_condition(ca, &result, &slot) == 1) {
-                up(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
+                up_read(&ca->slot_info[slot].sem);
                 mask |= POLLIN;
         }
 
@@ -1559,7 +1539,7 @@
                 ca->slot_info[i].slot_state = DVB_CA_SLOTSTATE_NONE;
                 atomic_set(&ca->slot_info[i].camchange_count, 0);
                 ca->slot_info[i].camchange_type = DVB_CA_EN50221_CAMCHANGE_REMOVED;
-                init_MUTEX(&ca->slot_info[i].sem);
+                init_rwsem(&ca->slot_info[i].sem);
         }
 
         if (signal_pending(current)) {
Index: linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/linuxtv/dvb-kernel/linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.h,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -a -u -b -r1.1 dvb_ca_en50221.h
--- linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.h	5 Apr 2004 12:17:33 -0000	1.1
+++ linux/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.h	12 May 2004 22:38:11 -0000
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@
 /* Structure describing a CA interface */
 struct dvb_ca_en50221 {
 
+	/* NOTE: the read_*, write_* and poll_slot_status functions must use locks as
+	 * they may be called from several threads at once */
+
 	/* functions for accessing attribute memory on the CAM */
 	int (*read_attribute_mem)(struct dvb_ca_en50221* ca, int slot, int address);
 	int (*write_attribute_mem)(struct dvb_ca_en50221* ca, int slot, int address, u8 value);

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