Re: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 1 comp_code 1

Paul Menzel
2024-04-10T07:59:43Z

Dear Mathias, dear Michał,

Am 09.04.24 um 13:22 schrieb Mathias Nyman:
> On 8.4.2024 22.05, Michał Pecio wrote:
>>> It's also possible this TD/TRB was cancelled due to the disconnect.
>>> Could be that even if driver removes the TD from the list and cleans
>>> out the TRB from the ring buffer (turns TRB to no-op) hardware may
>>> have read ahead and cached the TRB, and process it anyway.
>>
>> I thought about it, but my debug patch says that the missing TD was
>> freed by finish_td(), which is called on TDs considered completed by
>> hardware. A cancelled TD would show giveback_invalidated_tds().
>>
>> Anyway, we now have new information from the reporter. My v2 patch
>> keeps a log of the last five events processed on each transfer ring
>> and dumps the log on TRB mismatch errors.
>>
>> Unfortunately, it looks like the host controller is broken and signals
>> completion of those transfers twice. The log below shows two distinct
>> events for TRB 32959a1c0 and that the coresponding TD has just been
>> freed by finish_td().
>
> The trace confirms this, we get double completion events for several
> Isoc TRBs. These double completions are seen after a transaction
> error on the same device (different endpoint). >
> Transfer events for TRB ..a1c0 twice, with a transaction error in between:
>  <idle>-0       [000] d.h2. 33819.709897: xhci_handle_event: EVENT: TRB 000000032959a1c0 status 'Success' len 0 slot 6 ep 2 type 'Transfer Event' flags e:c
>  <idle>-0       [000] d.h2. 33819.709904: xhci_handle_event: EVENT: TRB 000000041547d010 status 'USB Transaction Error' len 4 slot 6 ep 15 type 'Transfer Event' flags e:c
>  systemd-journal-395     [000] d.H1. 33819.711886: xhci_handle_event: EVENT: TRB 000000032959a1c0 status 'Success' len 0 slot 6 ep 2 type 'Transfer Event' flags e:c
>
> Transfer events for TRB ..a1d0 twice (the next TRB)
>  systemd-journal-395     [000] d.H1. 33819.712001: xhci_handle_event: EVENT: TRB 000000032959a1d0 status 'Success' len 0 slot 6 ep 2 type 'Transfer Event' flags e:c
>  systemd-journal-395     [000] d.H1. 33819.712059: xhci_handle_event: EVENT: TRB 000000032959a1d0 status 'Success' len 0 slot 6 ep 2 type 'Transfer Event' flags e:c
>
> Transfer events for TRB ..a1e0 twice
>  systemd-journal-395     [000] d.H1. 33819.712139: xhci_handle_event: EVENT: TRB 000000032959a1e0 status 'Success' len 0 slot 6 ep 2 type 'Transfer Event' flags e:c
>  systemd-journal-395     [000] d.h1. 33819.712871: xhci_handle_event: EVENT: TRB 000000032959a1e0 status 'Success' len 0 slot 6 ep 2 type 'Transfer Event' flags e:c
>
> etc..
>
> Driver can cope with these extra events, but if this is common we should
> probably handle it silently and not concern users with that ERROR message.

Thank you for the detailed analysis. Excuse my ignorance, but do you
have an idea, what this Sennheiser USB headset does differently than
other USB devices? Additionally, is this a known problem with this Intel
xHCI controller, meaning, is there an errata about this problem?

> We are actually at the moment looking at improving handle_tx_event() with
> Niklas (cc), and will take this into consideration.
That would be great. Thank you for working on this.

Kind regards,

Paul