History log of /drivers/usb/mon/usb_mon.h
Revision Date Author Comments
4e9e92003529e5c7bb11281f7c2c9b3fe8858403 11-Jun-2009 Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> USB: usbmon: end ugly tricks with DMA peeking

This patch fixes crashes when usbmon attempts to access GART aperture.
The old code attempted to take a bus address and convert it into a
virtual address, which clearly was impossible on systems with actual
IOMMUs. Let us not persist in this foolishness, and use transfer_buffer
in all cases instead.

I think downsides are negligible. The ones I see are:
- A driver may pass an address of one buffer down as transfer_buffer,
and entirely different entity mapped for DMA, resulting in misleading
output of usbmon. Note, however, that PIO based controllers would
do transfer the same data that usbmon sees here.
- Out of tree drivers may crash usbmon if they store garbage in
transfer_buffer. I inspected the in-tree drivers, and clarified
the documentation in comments.
- Drivers that use get_user_pages will not be possible to monitor.
I only found one driver with this problem (drivers/staging/rspiusb).
- Same happens with with usb_storage transferring from highmem, but
it works fine on 64-bit systems, so I think it's not a concern.
At least we don't crash anymore.

Why didn't we do this in 2.6.10? That's because back in those days
it was popular not to fill in transfer_buffer, so almost all
traffic would be invisible (e.g. all of HID was like that).
But now, the tree is almost 100% PIO friendly, so we can do the
right thing at last.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
9347d51c52afcf1a77d2104f162cf8a085624c83 24-Aug-2007 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> USB: reorganize urb->status use in usbmon

This patch (as978) reorganizes the way usbmon uses urb->status. It
now accepts the status value as an argument.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
ce7cd137fced114d49178b73d468b82096a107fb 04-May-2007 Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> usbmon: Add class for binary interface

Add a class which allows for an easier integration with udev.

This code was originally written by Paolo Abeni, and arrived to my tree
as a part of big patch to add binary API on December 18. As I understand,
Paolo always meant the class to be a part of the whole thing. This is his
udev rule to go along with the patch:

KERNEL=="usbmon[0-9]*", NAME="usbmon%n", MODE="0440",OWNER="root",GROUP="bin"

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
ecb658d387dc09f344b3d755e8674076072032c7 11-Apr-2007 Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> usbmon: bus zero

Add the "bus zero" feature to the usbmon. If a user process specifies bus
with number zero, it receives events from all buses. This is useful when
we wish to see initial enumeration when a bus is created, typically after
a modprobe. Until now, an application had to loop until a new bus could
be open, then start capturing on it. This procedure was cumbersome and
could lose initial events. Also, often it's too bothersome to find exactly
to which bus a specific device is attached.

Paolo Albeni provided the original concept implementation. I added the
handling of "bus->monitored" flag and generally fixed it up.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
f1c9e30b5e4cdd8aae5f0ea87004b1b61ec41881 25-Feb-2007 Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> usbmon: Extended text API

This patch adds a new text API, codenamed '1u', which captures more URB
fields than old '1t' interface did. Also the '1u' text API is compatible
with the future "bus zero" extension.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
21641e3fb1c2e53b3a0acf68e6f62f1f82f61445 20-Feb-2007 Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> usbmon: Remove erroneous __exit

mon_bin_exit() and mon_text_exit() are called from __init code, so don't mark
them as __exit.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
6f23ee1fefdc1f80bd8a3ab04a1c41ab2dec14c9 31-Dec-2006 Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> USB: add binary API to usbmon

This patch adds a new, "binary" API in addition to the old, text API usbmon
had before. The new API allows for less CPU use, and it allows to capture
all data from a packet where old API only captured 32 bytes at most. There
are some limitations and conditions to this, e.g. in case someone constructs
a URB with 1GB of data, it's not likely to be captured, because even the
huge buffers of the new reader are finite. Nonetheless, I expect this new
capability to capture all data for all real life scenarios.

The downside is, a special user mode application is required where cat(1)
worked before. I have sample code at http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/
and Paolo Abeni is working on patching libpcap.

This patch was initially written by Paolo and later I tweaked it, and
we had a little back-and-forth. So this is a jointly authored patch, but
I am submitting this I am responsible for the bugs.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <paolo.abeni@email.it>
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
4d6cd48380c4d361cc8ec34359df22377d85d202 30-Aug-2006 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> usbmon: don't call mon_dmapeek if DMA isn't being used

This patch (as755b) fixes a bug in usbmon. Rather than assuming all
USB host controllers use DMA, the code will check the usb_bus data
structure. If DMA isn't used, we don't want to try peeking into a
non-existent DMA buffer!

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
066202dd48cf3296b6cc22b5fcf89aef33fa0efc 06-Aug-2006 Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> USB: Make file operations structs in drivers/usb const.

Making structs const prevents accidental bugs and with the proper debug
options they're protected against corruption.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
12e72feab5d9a23107f245b0f241a2484cbb5a4e 10-Jun-2006 Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> [PATCH] USB: implement error event in usbmon

Implement the "error" event in usbmon.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
5b1c674d223eef6c6494be8be91e9e3a3054817e 10-Jun-2006 Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> [PATCH] USB: update usbmon, fix glued lines

This update contains one bug fix: some lines can come out truncated,
because of the safety cutoff. This happened because I forgot to update
the size when status packets began to be printed.

The rest is:
- Comments updates
- Allow snooping with pkmap on x86_64, which is cache-coherent
- Enlarge event buffers (certainly we can have a couple of pages)
- Add event counter

First touch upon usbmon for 2.6.18.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
4186ecf8ad16dd05759a09594de6a87e48759ba6 11-Jan-2006 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> [PATCH] USB: convert a bunch of USB semaphores to mutexes

the patch below converts a bunch of semaphores-used-as-mutex in the USB
code to mutexes

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
0256839619d9b1e933cafc83e7f0deaad4216465 16-Aug-2005 Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> [PATCH] usbmon in 2.6.13: peeking into DMA areas

This code looks at urb->transfer_dma, maps the page and takes the data.
I am looking for volunteers to contribute architectures other than i386
or to develop an architecure-neutral API for it (or point me that it
was done already).

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
da5ca008933b3b28303ba44d0be3372fbac7748b 17-Aug-2005 Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> [PATCH] USB: usbmon: Copyrights and a typo

Add copyright statements and fix a typo.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 17-Apr-2005 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!