From: "Németh Márton" <nm127@freemail.hu>
To: gregkh <gregkh@suse.de>, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: usbip: somtimes stalls at kernel_recvmsg()
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:31:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D09C056.5020305@freemail.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D06A004.8070502@freemail.hu>
Németh Márton wrote:
> I'm working with usbip and I sometimes see a stall when I run
> the "lsusb" command from the userspace. I added some debug messages
> and it seems that the kernel_recvmsg() in
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_common.c;h=210ef16bab8d271a52e5d36cd1994aad57ad99e1;hb=HEAD
>
> This is the only place I could find where the TCP messages are arriving in
> the usbip code.
>
> What happens if a message does not arrive? Does it stall forever? If
> yes, how can the kernel_recvmsg() call changed to handle some timeout?
I found that the userspace manpage of recvmsg(2) ("man recvmsg") contains description
of the "flags" parameter. I suppose the parameters and behaviour of the userspace
recvmsg() is the same as the kernelspace kernel_recvmsg().
Márton Németh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-16 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-13 22:36 usbip: somtimes stalls at kernel_recvmsg() Németh Márton
2010-12-16 7:31 ` Németh Márton [this message]
2010-12-16 22:50 ` Max Vozeler
2010-12-17 5:45 ` usbip: sometimes " Németh Márton
2010-12-20 22:22 ` Max Vozeler
2010-12-21 8:03 ` Németh Márton
2010-12-22 19:49 ` Németh Márton
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