Bug 252712

Summary:	Webcam does not work when attached to xhci(4) but does attached to ehci(4)
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn>
Component:	usb	Assignee:	freebsd-usb (Nobody) <usb>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	emaste, hselasky
Priority:	---
Version:	CURRENT
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Nathan Whitehorn freebsd_committer

2021-01-15 14:29:36 UTC

I have a Logitech C925e webcam. When attached to the onboard xhci(4) controller (AMD 300 Series USB 3.0 controller), it does not provide any picture through webcamd, though does turn on. Data are clearly transferred, as the interrupt rate goes up dramatically when running pwcview. If I set uvc_driver.nodrop=1 in webcamd, I can see a small top portion of each frame, which gets smaller at higher resolution, suggesting that the transfers are being truncated after some number of bytes.

If I install an ehci(4)-based PCI card and plug the webcam into that instead, everything works perfectly without tweaks.

Comment 1 Hans Petter Selasky freebsd_committer

2021-01-15 15:28:33 UTC

It is likely a bug regarding the bandwidth allocation for XHCI ISOCH endpoints.

When we setup an endpoint context we need to fill in some parameters to tell the hardware how many bytes to reserve. Likely these are wrong:

Refer to:

XHCI_EPCTX_4_MAX_ESIT_PAYLOAD_SET(max_frame_size)

in xhci.c

Maybe you can play with the parameter.

--HPS

Comment 2 Nathan Whitehorn freebsd_committer

2021-01-15 15:31:49 UTC

Thanks for the pointer, I'll take a look at that.

Comment 3 Hans Petter Selasky freebsd_committer

2021-01-15 16:18:58 UTC

You may also find the XHCI status codes useful for the failed ISOCHRONOUS transfers.

sysctl hw.usb.xhci.debug=17

--HPS

Comment 4 Nathan Whitehorn freebsd_committer

2021-02-15 15:16:20 UTC

This has magically fixed itself recently, so I can't investigate the problem any further. There haven't obviously been any commits that would change the behavior,  so I'm pretty sure whatever the bug was still exists, but I can't do anything more unfortunately. I'll close it for now and if this happens again will reopen it.