firewire: ohci: increase AT req. retries, fix ack_busy_X from Panasonic camcorders...

Camcorders have a tendency to fail read requests to their config ROM and
write request to their FCP command register with ack_busy_X.  This has
become a problem with newer kernels and especially Panasonic camcorders,
causing AV/C in dvgrab and kino to fail.  Dvgrab for example frequently
logs "send oops"; kino reports loss of AV/C control.  I suspect that
lower CPU scheduling latencies in newer kernels made this issue more
prominent now.

According to
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=114103&aid=2492640&group_id=14103
this can be fixed by configuring the FireWire controller for more
hardware retries for request transmission; these retries are evidently
more successful than libavc1394's own retry loop (typically 3 tries on
top of hardware retries).

Presumably the same issue has been reported at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449252 and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477279 .

In a quick test with a JVC camcorder (which didn't malfunction like the
reported camcorders), this change decreased the number of ack_busy_X
from 16 in three runs of dvgrab to 4 in three runs of the same capture
duration.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

diff --git a/drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c b/drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c
index 9bedd61..6d19828 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static inline struct fw_ohci *fw_ohci(struct fw_card *card)
 #define CONTEXT_DEAD   0x0800
 #define CONTEXT_ACTIVE 0x0400
 
-#define OHCI1394_MAX_AT_REQ_RETRIES    0x2
+#define OHCI1394_MAX_AT_REQ_RETRIES    0xf
 #define OHCI1394_MAX_AT_RESP_RETRIES   0x2
 #define OHCI1394_MAX_PHYS_RESP_RETRIES 0x8