[SeaBIOS] Intermittent USB keyboard freeze

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Tue Feb 4 18:27:47 CET 2014


On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 10:01:32AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > I looked through the QEMU hcd-uhci.c code, and I think QEMU is buggy
> > here.  QEMU keeps a mapping of queues that are indexed by the usb
> > device address and endpoint (see uhci_queue_new() ).  When the usb
> > device has address 0, it creates an entry in this mapping and the
> > entry remains even after the device is given a new address.  Later,
> > when the next device also has address 0, QEMU attempts to use that
> > mapping even though the 0 address now corresponds with a different
> > device.
> 
> Nice spotting.  Does the attached patch help?

Doesn't help for me either.  It's not hard to reproduce for me - I
just run qemu with "-usb -device usb-kbd -device usb-net" and don't
run with seabios debugging directed to stdout (as that seems to add
some delays which can make things work) - it locks up the keyboard
most times for me.

The qemu patch below does fix it for me.  I think clearing the cache
on reset is probably simpler then trying to verify the cache later on.
It would be even better to clear the cache on a set_address command
(to cover the admittedly obscure case of an OS changing a device's
address later on).  But, I'm not familiar enough with the QEMU code to
attempt that.

-Kevin


--- a/hw/usb/hcd-uhci.c
+++ b/hw/usb/hcd-uhci.c
@@ -550,6 +552,13 @@ static void uhci_port_write(void *opaque, hwaddr addr,
                      !(port->ctrl & UHCI_PORT_RESET) ) {
                     usb_device_reset(dev);
                 }
+                UHCIQueue *queue, *nq;
+
+                QTAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE(queue, &s->queues, next, nq) {
+                    if (queue->token == 0) {
+                        uhci_queue_free(queue, "reset-port");
+                    }
+                }
             }
             port->ctrl &= UHCI_PORT_READ_ONLY;
             /* enabled may only be set if a device is connected */



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