Now I activated the debug messages in em28xx. From the messages I see no correlation of the pool exhaustion and lost sync. Also I cannot see any error messages from the em28xx driver. I see a lot of init_isoc/stop_urbs (maybe EPG scan?) without draining the coherent pool (checked with 'cat /debug/dma-api/num_free_entries', which gave stable numbers), but after half an hour there are only init_isoc messages without corresponding stop_urbs messages and num_free_entries decreased until coherent pool exhaustion.
Hi Soeren
em28xx_stop_urbs() is only called by em28xx_stop_streaming().
em28xx_stop_streaming() is only called by em28xx_stop_feed() when 0 == dvb->nfeeds.
em28xx_stop_feed()and em28xx_start_feed() look O.K, dvb->nfeeds is protected by a mutex etc.
Now, em28xx_init_isoc() is also called by buffer_prepare(). This uses em28xx_alloc_isoc() to do the actual allocation, and that function sets up the urb such that on completion the function em28xx_irq_callback() is called.
It looks like there might be issues here:
Once the data has been copied out, it resubmits the urb:
urb->status = usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_ATOMIC); if (urb->status) { em28xx_isocdbg("urb resubmit failed (error=%i)\n", urb->status); }
However, if the ubs_submit_urb fails, it looks like the urb is lost.
If you look at other code submitting urbs you have this pattern:
rc = usb_submit_urb(isoc_bufs->urb[i], GFP_ATOMIC); if (rc) { em28xx_err("submit of urb %i failed (error=%i)\n", i, rc); em28xx_uninit_isoc(dev, mode); return rc; }
Do you have your build such that you would see "urb resubmit failed" in your logs? Are there any?
Andrew