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USB: HCD: support giveback of URB in tasklet context
This patch implements the mechanism of giveback of URB in tasklet context, so that hardware interrupt handling time for usb host controller can be saved much, and HCD interrupt handling can be simplified. Motivations: 1), on some arch(such as ARM), DMA mapping/unmapping is a bit time-consuming, for example: when accessing usb mass storage via EHCI on pandaboard, the common length of transfer buffer is 120KB, the time consumed on DMA unmapping may reach hundreds of microseconds; even on A15 based box, the time is still about scores of microseconds 2), on some arch, reading DMA coherent memoery is very time-consuming, the most common example is usb video class driver[1] 3), driver's complete() callback may do much things which is driver specific, so the time is consumed unnecessarily in hardware irq context. 4), running driver's complete() callback in hardware irq context causes that host controller driver has to release its lock in interrupt handler, so reacquiring the lock after return may busy wait a while and increase interrupt handling time. More seriously, releasing the HCD lock makes HCD becoming quite complicated to deal with introduced races. So the patch proposes to run giveback of URB in tasklet context, then time consumed in HCD irq handling doesn't depend on drivers' complete and DMA mapping/unmapping any more, also we can simplify HCD since the HCD lock isn't needed to be released during irq handling. The patch should be reasonable and doable: 1), for drivers, they don't care if the complete() is called in hard irq context or softirq context 2), the biggest change is the situation in which usb_submit_urb() is called in complete() callback, so the introduced tasklet schedule delay might be a con, but it shouldn't be a big deal: - control/bulk asynchronous transfer isn't sensitive to schedule delay - the patch schedules giveback of periodic URBs using tasklet_hi_schedule, so the introduced delay should be very small - for ISOC transfer, generally, drivers submit several URBs concurrently to avoid interrupt delay, so it is OK with the little schedule delay. - for interrupt transfer, generally, drivers only submit one URB at the same time, but interrupt transfer is often used in event report, polling, ... situations, and a little delay should be OK. Considered that HCDs may optimize on submitting URB in complete(), the patch may cause the optimization not working, so introduces one flag to mark if the HCD supports to run giveback URB in tasklet context. When all HCDs are ready, the flag can be removed. [1], http://marc.info/?t=136438111600010&r=1&w=2 Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> Acked-by:Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: