xHCI: AMD isoc link TRB chain bit quirk
Setting the chain (CH) bit in the link TRB of isochronous transfer rings
is required by AMD 0.96 xHCI host controller to successfully transverse
multi-TRB TD that span through different memory segments.
When a Missed Service Error event occurs, if the chain bit is not set in
the link TRB and the host skips TDs which just across a link TRB, the
host may falsely recognize the link TRB as a normal TRB. You can see
this may cause big trouble - the host does not jump to the right address
which is pointed by the link TRB, but continue fetching the memory which
is after the link TRB address, which may not even belong to the host,
and the result cannot be predicted.
This causes some big problems. Without the former patch I sent: "xHCI:
prevent infinite loop when processing MSE event", the system may hang.
With that patch applied, system does not hang, but the host still access
wrong memory address and isoc transfer will fail. With this patch,
isochronous transfer works as expected.
This patch should be applied to kernels as old as 2.6.36, which was when
the first isochronous support was added for the xHCI host controller.
Signed-off-by: Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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