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><DIV
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><A
NAME="AEN16868"
></A
><H2
>Name</H2
>Testing -- Testing of USB Device Drivers</DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN16871"
></A
><H2
>Introduction</H2
><P
>The support for USB testing provided by the eCos USB common slave
package is somewhat different in nature from the kind of testing used
in many other packages. One obvious problem is that USB tests cannot
be run on just a bare target platform: instead the target platform
must be connected to a suitable USB host machine, and that host
machine must be running appropriate software for the test code to
interact with. This is very different from say a kernel test which
typically will have no external dependencies. Another important
difference between USB testing and say a C library
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>strcmp</TT
> test is sensitivity to timing and to
hardware boundary conditions: although a simple test case that just
performs a small number of USB transfers is better than no testing at
all, it should also be possible to run tests for hours or days on end,
under a variety of loads. In order to provide the required
functionality the basic architecture of the USB testing support is as
follows: </P
><P
></P
><OL
TYPE="1"
><LI
><P
> There is a single target-side program
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbtarget</SPAN
>. By default when this is run
on a target platform it will appear to do nothing. In fact it is
waiting to be contacted by another program
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> which will tell it what test or
tests to run. <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbtarget</SPAN
> provides
mechanisms for running a wide range of tests.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbtarget</SPAN
> is a generic program, but USB
testing depends to some extent on the functionality provided by the
hardware. For example there is no point in testing bulk transmits
to endpoint 12 if the target hardware does not support an endpoint
12. Therefore each USB device driver should supply information about
what the hardware is actually capable of, in the form of an array of
<SPAN
CLASS="STRUCTNAME"
>usbs_testing_endpoint</SPAN
> data structures.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> There is a single host-side program
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
>, which acts as a counterpart to
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbtarget</SPAN
>. Again
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> has no built-in knowledge of
the test or tests that are supposed to run, it only provides
mechanisms for running a wide range of tests. On start-up
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> will search the USB bus for
hardware running the target-side program, specifically a USB device
that identifies itself as the product <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>"Red Hat eCos
USB test"</TT
>.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> contains a Tcl interpreter, and
will execute any Tcl scripts specified on the command line
together with appropriate arguments. The Tcl interpreter has been
extended with various commands such as
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>usbtest::bulktest</TT
>, so the script can perform
the desired test or tests.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Adding a new test simply involves writing a short Tcl script that
invokes the appropriate USB-specific commands. Running multiple
tests involves passing appropriate arguments to
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
>, or alternatively writing a
single script that just invokes other scripts.
</P
></LI
></OL
><P
>The current implementation of <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
>
depends heavily on functionality provided by the Linux kernel and in
particular the usbdevfs support. It uses
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/proc/bus/usb/devices</TT
> to find out what devices
are attached to the bus, and will then access the device by opening
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/proc/bus/usb/xxx/yyy</TT
> and performing
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>ioctl</TT
> operations. This allows USB testing to take
place without having to write a new host-side device driver, but
getting the code working on host machines not running Linux would
obviously be problematical.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN16904"
></A
><H2
>Building and Running the Target-side Code</H2
><P
>The target-side component of the USB testing software consists of a
single program <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbtarget</SPAN
> which contains
support for a range of different tests, under the control of host-side
software. This program is not built by default alongside other eCos
test cases since it will only operate in certain environments,
specifically when the target board's connector is plugged into a Linux
host, and when the appropriate host-side software has been installed
on that host. Instead the user must enable a configuration option
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>CYGBLD_IO_USB_SLAVE_USBTEST</TT
> to add the program to
the list of tests for the current configuration.</P
><P
>Starting the <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbtarget</SPAN
> program does not
require anything unusual, so it can be run in a normal
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>gdb</SPAN
> session just like any eCos application.
After initialization the program will wait for activity from the host.
Depending on the hardware, the Linux host will detect that a new USB
peripheral is present on the bus either when the
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbtarget</SPAN
> initialization is complete or
when the cable between target and host is connected. The host will
perform the normal USB enumeration sequence and discover that the
peripheral does not match any known vendor or product id and that
there is no device driver for <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>"Red Hat eCos USB
test"</TT
>, so it will ignore the peripheral. When the
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> program is run on the host it will
connect to the target-side software, and testing can now commence.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN16915"
></A
><H2
>Building and Running the Host-side Code</H2
><DIV
CLASS="NOTE"
><BLOCKQUOTE
CLASS="NOTE"
><P
><B
>Note: </B
>In theory the host-side software should be built when the package is
installed in the component repository, and removed when a package
is uninstalled. The current eCos administration tool does not provide
this functionality.</P
></BLOCKQUOTE
></DIV
><P
>The host-side software should be built via the usual sequence of
"configure/make/make install". It can only be built on a
Linux host and the <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>configure</B
> script contains an
explicit test for this. Because the eCos component repository should
generally be treated as a read-only resource the configure script will
also prevent you from trying to build inside the source tree. Instead
a separate build tree is required. Hence a typical sequence for
building the host-side software would be as follows:</P
><TABLE
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><TR
><TD
><PRE
CLASS="SCREEN"
>$ mkdir usbhost_build
$ cd usbhost_build
$ <repo>packages/io/usb/slave/current/host/configure <A
NAME="PATH"
><IMG
SRC="../images/callouts/1.gif"
HSPACE="0"
VSPACE="0"
BORDER="0"
ALT="(1)"></A
> <A
NAME="VERSION"
><IMG
SRC="../images/callouts/2.gif"
HSPACE="0"
VSPACE="0"
BORDER="0"
ALT="(2)"></A
> <args> <A
NAME="ARGS"
><IMG
SRC="../images/callouts/3.gif"
HSPACE="0"
VSPACE="0"
BORDER="0"
ALT="(3)"></A
>
$ make
<output from make>
$ su <A
NAME="ROOT"
><IMG
SRC="../images/callouts/4.gif"
HSPACE="0"
VSPACE="0"
BORDER="0"
ALT="(4)"></A
>
$ make install
<output from make install>
$</PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
><DIV
CLASS="CALLOUTLIST"
><DL
COMPACT="COMPACT"
><DT
><A
HREF="usbs-testing.html#PATH"
><IMG
SRC="../images/callouts/1.gif"
HSPACE="0"
VSPACE="0"
BORDER="0"
ALT="(1)"></A
></DT
><DD
>The location of the eCos component repository should be substituted
for <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
><repo></TT
>.</DD
><DT
><A
HREF="usbs-testing.html#VERSION"
><IMG
SRC="../images/callouts/2.gif"
HSPACE="0"
VSPACE="0"
BORDER="0"
ALT="(2)"></A
></DT
><DD
>If the package has been obtained via CVS or anonymous CVS then the
package version will be <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>current</TT
>, as per the
example. If instead the package has been obtained as part of a full
eCos release or as a separate <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>.epk</TT
> file then the
appropriate package version should be used instead of
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>current</TT
>.</DD
><DT
><A
HREF="usbs-testing.html#ARGS"
><IMG
SRC="../images/callouts/3.gif"
HSPACE="0"
VSPACE="0"
BORDER="0"
ALT="(3)"></A
></DT
><DD
>The <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>configure</B
> script takes the usual arguments such
as <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>--prefix=</I
></TT
> to specify where the executables
and support files should be installed. The only other parameter that
some users may wish to specify is the location of a suitable Tcl
installation. By default <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> will use
the existing Tcl installation in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr</TT
>,
as provided by your Linux distribution. An alternative Tcl
installation can be specified using the parameter
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>--with-tcl=</I
></TT
>, or alternatively using some
combination of <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>--with-tcl-include</I
></TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>--with-tcl-lib</I
></TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>--with-tcl-version</I
></TT
>. </DD
><DT
><A
HREF="usbs-testing.html#ROOT"
><IMG
SRC="../images/callouts/4.gif"
HSPACE="0"
VSPACE="0"
BORDER="0"
ALT="(4)"></A
></DT
><DD
>One of the host-side executables that gets built,
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbchmod</SPAN
>, needs to be installed with suid
root privileges. Although the Linux kernel makes it possible for
applications to perform low-level USB operations such as transmitting
bulk packets, by default access to this functionality is restricted to
programs with superuser privileges. It is undesirable to run a complex
program such as <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> with such
privileges, especially since the program contains a general-purpose
Tcl interpreter. Therefore when <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
>
starts up and discovers that it does not have sufficient access to the
appropriate entries in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/proc/bus/usb</TT
>,
it spawns an instance of <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbchmod</SPAN
> to modify
the permissions on these entries. <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbchmod</SPAN
>
will only do this for a USB device <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>"Red Hat eCos USB
test"</TT
>, so installing this program suid root should not
introduce any security problems.</DD
></DL
></DIV
><P
>During <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>make install</B
> the following actions will take
place: </P
><P
></P
><OL
TYPE="1"
><LI
><P
><SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> will be installed in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/local/bin</TT
>,
or some other <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>bin</TT
> directory if
the default location is changed at configure-time using a
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>--prefix=</I
></TT
> or similar option. It will be
installed as the executable
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost_<version></SPAN
>, for example
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost_current</SPAN
>, thus allowing several
releases of the USB slave package to co-exist. For convenience a
symbolic link from <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>usbhost</TT
> to this executable
will be created, so users can just run <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>usbhost</B
> to
access the most recently-installed version.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
><SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbchmod</SPAN
> will be installed in
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/local/libexec/ecos/io_usb_slave_<version></TT
>.
This program should only be run by <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
>,
not invoked directly, so it is not placed in the <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>bin</TT
>
directory. Again the presence of the package version in the directory
name allows multiple releases of the package to co-exist.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>A Tcl script <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>usbhost.tcl</TT
> will get installed in
the same directory as <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbchmod</SPAN
>. This Tcl
script is loaded automatically by the
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> executable. </P
></LI
><LI
><P
>A number of additional Tcl scripts, for example
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>list.tcl</TT
> will get installed alongside
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>usbhost.tcl</TT
>. These correspond to various test
cases provided as standard. If a given test case is specified on the
command line and cannot be found relative to the current directory
then <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> will search the install
directory for these test cases.</P
><DIV
CLASS="NOTE"
><BLOCKQUOTE
CLASS="NOTE"
><P
><B
>Note: </B
>Strictly speaking installing the <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>usbhost.tcl</TT
> and
other Tcl scripts below the <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>libexec</TT
>
directory deviates from standard practice: they are
architecture-independent data files so should be installed below
the <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>share</TT
> subdirectory. In
practice the files are sufficiently small that there is no point in
sharing them, and keeping them below <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>libexec</TT
>
simplifies the host-side software somewhat.</P
></BLOCKQUOTE
></DIV
></LI
></OL
><P
>The <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>usbhost</B
> should be run only when there is a
suitable target attached to the USB bus and running the
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbtarget</SPAN
> program. It will search
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/proc/bus/usb/devices</TT
> for an entry corresponding
to this program, invoke <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbchmod</SPAN
> if
necessary to change the access rights, and then interact with
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbtarget</SPAN
> over the USB bus.
<B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>usbhost</B
> should be invoked as follows:</P
><TABLE
BORDER="5"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0"
WIDTH="70%"
><TR
><TD
><PRE
CLASS="SCREEN"
>$ usbhost [-v|--version] [-h|--help] [-V|--verbose] <test> [<test parameters>]</PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
><P
></P
><OL
TYPE="1"
><LI
><P
>The <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>-v</I
></TT
> or <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>--version</I
></TT
>
option will display version information for
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> including the version of the USB
slave package that was used to build the executable.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>The <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>-h</I
></TT
> or <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>--help</I
></TT
> option
will display usage information.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>The <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>-V</I
></TT
> or <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>--verbose</I
></TT
>
option can be used to obtain more information at run-time, for example
some output for every USB transfer. This option can be repeated
multiple times to increase the amount of output.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>The first argument that does not begin with a hyphen specifies a test
that should be run, in the form of a Tcl script. For example an
argument of <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>list.tcl</I
></TT
> will cause
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> to look for a script with that
name, adding a <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>.tcl</TT
> suffix if necessarary, and
run that script. <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> will look in the
current directory first, then in the install tree for standard test
scripts provided by the USB slave package.</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Some test scripts may want their own parameters, for example a
duration in seconds. These can be passed on the command line after
the name of the test, for example
<B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>usbhost mytest 60</B
>. </P
></LI
></OL
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN17020"
></A
><H2
>Writing a Test</H2
><P
>Each test is defined by a Tcl script, running inside an interpreter
provided by <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
>. In addition to the
normal Tcl functionality this interpreter provides a number of
variables and functions related to USB testing. For example there is a
variable <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_in_endpoints</TT
> that lists all the
endpoints on the target that can perform bulk IN operations, and a
related array <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_in</TT
> which contains information
such as the minimum and maximum packets sizes. There is a function
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>bulktest</TT
> which can be used to perform bulk tests
on a particular endpoint. A simple test script aimed at specific
hardware could ignore the information variables since it would know
exactly what USB hardware is available on the target, whereas a
general-purpose script would use the information to adapt to the
hardware capabilities.</P
><P
>To avoid namespace pollution all USB-related Tcl variables and
functions live in the <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>usbtest::</TT
> namespace.
Therefore accessing requires either explicitly including the
namespace any references, for example
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>$usbtest::bulk_in_endpoints</TT
>, or by using Tcl's
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>namespace import</TT
> facility.</P
><P
>A very simple test script might look like this:</P
><TABLE
BORDER="5"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0"
WIDTH="70%"
><TR
><TD
><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>usbtest::bulktest 1 out 4000
usbtest::bulktest 2 in 4000
if { [usbtest::start 60] } {
puts "Test successful"
} else
puts "Test failed"
foreach result $usbtest::results {
puts $result
}
}</PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
><P
>This would perform a test run involving 4000 bulk transfers from the
host to the target's endpoint 1, and concurrently 4000 bulk transfers
from endpoint 2. Default settings for packet sizes, contents, and
delays would be used. The actual test would not start running until
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>usbtest</TT
> is invoked, and it is expected that the
test would complete within 60 seconds. If any failures occur then they
are reported.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN17035"
></A
><H2
>Available Hardware</H2
><P
>Each target-side USB device driver provides information about the
actual capabilities of the hardware, for example which endpoints are
available. Strictly speaking it provides information about what is
actually supported by the device driver, which may be a subset of what
the hardware is capable of. For example, the hardware may support
isochronous transfers on a particular endpoint but if there is no
software support for this in the driver then this endpoint will not be
listed. When <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> first contacts the
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbtarget</SPAN
> program running on the target
platform, it obtains this information and makes it available to test
scripts via Tcl variables:</P
><P
></P
><DIV
CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
><DL
><DT
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_in_endpoints</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> This is a simple list of the endpoints which can support bulk IN
transfers. For example if the target-side hardware supports
these transfers on endpoints 3 and 5 then the value would be
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>"3 5"</TT
> Typical test scripts would
iterate over the list using something like:
</P
><TABLE
BORDER="5"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0"
WIDTH="70%"
><TR
><TD
><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
> if { 0 != [llength $usbtest::bulk_in_endpoints] } {
puts"Bulk IN endpoints: $usbtest::bulk_in_endpoints"
foreach endpoint $usbtest:bulk_in_endpoints {
…
}
}
</PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_in()</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> This array holds additional information about each bulk IN endpoint.
The array is indexed by two fields, the endpoint number and one of
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>min_size</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>max_size</TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>max_in_padding</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>devtab</TT
>:
</P
><P
></P
><DIV
CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
><DL
><DT
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>min_size</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> This field specifies a lower bound on the size of bulk transfers,
and will typically will have a value of 1.
</P
><DIV
CLASS="NOTE"
><BLOCKQUOTE
CLASS="NOTE"
><P
><B
>Note: </B
> The typical minimum transfer size of a single byte is not strictly
speaking correct, since under some circumstances it can make sense
to have a transfer size of zero bytes. However current target-side
device drivers interpret a request to transfer zero bytes as a way
for higher-level code to determine whether or not an endpoint is
stalled, so it is not actually possible to perform zero-byte
transfers. This issue will be addressed at some future point.
</P
></BLOCKQUOTE
></DIV
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>max_size</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> This field specifies an upper bound on the size of bulk transfers.
Some target-side drivers may be limited to transfers of say
0x0FFFF bytes because of hardware limitations. In practice the
transfer size is likely to be limited primarily to limit memory
consumption of the test code on the target hardware, and to ensure
that tests complete reasonably quickly. At the time of writing
transfers are limited to 4K.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>max_in_padding</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> On some hardware it may be necessary for the target-side device
driver to send more data than is actually intended. For example
the SA11x0 USB hardware cannot perform bulk transfers that are
an exact multiple of 64 bytes, instead it must pad such
transfers with an extra byte and the host must be ready to
accept and discard this byte. The
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>max_in_padding</TT
> field indicates the amount of
padding that is required. The low-level code inside
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> will use this field
automatically, and there is no need for test scripts to adjust
packet sizes for padding. The field is provided for
informational purposes only.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>devtab</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> This is a string indicating whether or not the
target-side USB device driver supports access to this endpoint
via entries in the device table, in other words through
conventional calls like <TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>open</TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>write</TT
>. Some device drivers may only
support low-level USB access because typically that is what gets
used by USB class-specific packages such as USB-ethernet.
An empty string indicates that no devtab entry is available,
otherwise it will be something like
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>"/dev/usbs2w"</TT
>.
</P
></DD
></DL
></DIV
><P
> Typical test scripts would access this data using something like:
</P
><TABLE
BORDER="5"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0"
WIDTH="70%"
><TR
><TD
><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
> foreach endpoint $usbtest:bulk_in_endpoints {
puts "Endpoint $endpoint: "
puts " minimum transfer size $usbtest::bulk_in($endpoint,min_size)"
puts " maximum transfer size $usbtest::bulk_in($endpoint,max_size)"
if { 0 == $usbtest::bulk_in($endpoint,max_in_padding) } {
puts " no IN padding required"
} else {
puts " $usbtest::bulk_in($endpoint,max_in_padding) bytes of IN padding required"
}
if { "" == $usbtest::bulk_in($endpoint,devtab) } {
puts " no devtab entry provided"
} else {
puts " corresponding devtab entry is $usbtest::bulk_in($endpoint,devtab)"
}
}
</PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_out_endpoint</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> This is a simple list of the endpoints which can support bulk OUT
transfers. It is analogous to
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_in_endpoints</TT
>.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_out()</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> This array holds additional information about each bulk OUT
endpoint. It can be accessed in the same way as
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_in()</TT
>, except that there is no
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>max_in_padding</TT
> field because that field only
makes sense for IN transfers.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>control()</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> This array holds information about the control endpoint. It contains
two fields, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>min_size</TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>max_size</TT
>. Note that there is no variable
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>control_endpoints</TT
> because a USB target always
supports a single control endpoint <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>0</TT
>. Similarly
the <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>control</TT
> array does not use an endpoint number
as the first index because that would be redundant.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>isochronous_in_endpoints</TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>isochronous_in()</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> These variables provide the same information as
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_in_endpoints</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_in</TT
>,
but for endpoints that support isochronous IN transfers.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>isochronous_out_endpoints</TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>isochronous_out()</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> These variables provide the same information as
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_out_endpoints</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_out</TT
>,
but for endpoints that support isochronous OUT transfers.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>interrupt_in_endpoints</TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>interrupt_in()</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> These variables provide the same information as
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_in_endpoints</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_in</TT
>,
but for endpoints that support interrupt IN transfers.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>interrupt_out_endpoints</TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>interrupt_out()</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> These variables provide the same information as
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_out_endpoints</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>bulk_out</TT
>,
but for endpoints that support interrupt OUT transfers.
</P
></DD
></DL
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN17142"
></A
><H2
>Testing Bulk Transfers</H2
><P
>The main function for initiating a bulk test is
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>usbtest::bulktest</TT
>. This takes three compulsory
arguments, and can be given a number of additional arguments to
control the exact behaviour. The compulsory arguments are:</P
><P
></P
><DIV
CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
><DL
><DT
>endpoint</DT
><DD
><P
> This specifies the endpoint to use. It should correspond to
one of the entries in
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>usbtest::bulk_in_endpoints</TT
> or
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>usbtest::bulk_out_endpoints</TT
>, depending on the
transfer direction.
</P
></DD
><DT
>direction</DT
><DD
><P
> This should be either <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>in</TT
> or <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>out</TT
>.
</P
></DD
><DT
>number of transfers</DT
><DD
><P
> This specifies the number of transfers that should take place. The
testing software does not currently support the concept of performing
transfers for a given period of time because synchronising this on
both the host and a wide range of targets is difficult. However it
is relatively easy to work out the approximate time a number of bulk
transfers should take place, based on a typical bandwidth of
1MB/second and assuming say a 1ms overhead per transfer.
Alternatively a test script could perform a small initial run to
determine what performance can actually be expected from a given
target, and then use this information to run a much longer test.
</P
></DD
></DL
></DIV
><P
>Additional arguments can be used to control the exact transfer. For
example a <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txdelay+</I
></TT
> argument can be used to
slowly increase the delay between transfers. All such arguments involve
a value which can be passed either as part of the argument itself,
for example <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>txdelay+=5</TT
>, or as a subsequent
argument, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>txdelay+ 5</TT
>. The possible arguments fall
into a number of categories: data, I/O mechanism, transmit size,
receive size, transmit delay, and receive delay.</P
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT2"
><A
NAME="AEN17167"
></A
><H3
>Data</H3
><P
>An obvious parameter to control is the actual data that gets sent.
This can be controlled by the argument <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>data</I
></TT
>
which can take one of five values: <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>none</TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>bytefill</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>intfill</TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>byteseq</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>wordseq</TT
>. The default
value is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>none</TT
>.</P
><P
></P
><DIV
CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
><DL
><DT
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>none</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> The transmit code will not attempt to fill the buffer in any way,
and the receive code will not check it. The actual data that gets
transferred will be whatever happened to be in the buffer before
the transfer started.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>bytefill</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> The entire buffer will be filled with a single byte, as per
<TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>memset</TT
>.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>intfill</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> The buffer will be treated as an array of 32-bit integers, and will
be filled with the same integer repeated the appropriate number of
times. If the buffer size is not a multiple of four bytes then
the last few bytes will be set to 0.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>byteseq</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> The buffer will be filled with a sequence of bytes, generated by
a linear congruential generator. If the first byte in the buffer is
filled with the value <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>x</TT
>, the next byte will be
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>(m*x)+i</TT
>. For example a sequence of slowly
incrementing bytes can be achieved by setting both the multiplier
and the increment to 1. Alternatively a pseudo-random number
sequence can be achieved using values 1103515245 and 12345, as
per the standard C library <TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>rand</TT
> function.
For convenience these two constants are available as Tcl
variables <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>usbtest::MULTIPLIER</TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>usbtest::INCREMENT</TT
>.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>wordseq</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> This acts like <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>byteseq</TT
>, except that the buffer is
treated as an array of 32-bit integers rather than as an array of
bytes. If the buffer is not a multiple of four bytes then the last
few bytes will be filled with zeroes.
</P
></DD
></DL
></DIV
><P
>The above requires three additional parameters
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>data1</I
></TT
>, <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>data*</I
></TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>data+</I
></TT
>. <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>data1</I
></TT
> specifies
the value to be used for byte or word fills, or the first number when
calculating a sequence. The default value is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>0</TT
>.
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>data*</I
></TT
> and <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>data+</I
></TT
> specify
the multiplier and increment for a sequence, and have default values
of <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>0</TT
> respectively. For
example, to perform a bulk transfer of a pseudo-random sequence of
integers starting with 42 the following code could be used:</P
><TABLE
BORDER="5"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0F0"
WIDTH="70%"
><TR
><TD
><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>bulktest 2 IN 1000 data=wordseq data1=42 \
data* $usbtest::MULTIPLIER data+ $usbtest::INCREMENT</PRE
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
><P
>The above parameters define what data gets transferred for the first
transfer, but a test can involve multiple transfers. The data format
will be the same for all transfers, but it is possible to adjust the
current value, the multiplier, and the increment between each
transfer. This is achieved with parameters <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>data1*</I
></TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>data1+</I
></TT
>, <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>data**</I
></TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>data*+</I
></TT
>, <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>data+*</I
></TT
>, and
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>data++</I
></TT
>, with default values of 1 for each
multiplier and 0 for each increment. For example, if the multiplier
for the first transfer is set to <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>2</TT
> using
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>data*</I
></TT
>, and arguments
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>data** 2</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>data*+ -1</TT
> are also
supplied, then the multiplier for subsequent transfers will be
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>3</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>5</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>9</TT
>,
….</P
><DIV
CLASS="NOTE"
><BLOCKQUOTE
CLASS="NOTE"
><P
><B
>Note: </B
>Currently it is not possible for a test script to send specific data,
for example a specific sequence of bytes captured by a protocol analyser
that caused a problem. If the transfer was from host to target then
the target would have to know the exact sequence of bytes to expect,
which means transferring data over the USB bus when that data is known
to have caused problems in the past. Similarly for target to host
transfers the target would have to know what bytes to send. A possible
future extension of the USB testing support would allow for bounce
operations, where a given message is first sent to the target and then
sent back to the host, with only the host checking that the data was
returned correctly.</P
></BLOCKQUOTE
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT2"
><A
NAME="AEN17237"
></A
><H3
>I/O Mechanism</H3
><P
>On the target side USB transfers can happen using either low-level
USB calls such as <TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>usbs_start_rx_buffer</TT
>, or by
higher-level calls which go through the device table. By default the
target-side code will use the low-level calls. If it is desired to
test the higher-level calls instead, for example because those are
what the application uses, then that can be achieved with an
argument <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>mechanism=devtab</I
></TT
>.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT2"
><A
NAME="AEN17242"
></A
><H3
>Transmit Size</H3
><P
>The next set of arguments can be used to control the size of the
transmitted buffer: <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txsize1</I
></TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txsize>=</I
></TT
>, <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txsize<=</I
></TT
>
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txsize*</I
></TT
>, <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txsize/</I
></TT
>,
and <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txsize+</I
></TT
>.</P
><P
><TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txsize1</I
></TT
> determines the size of the first
transfer, and has a default value of 32 bytes. The size of the next
transfer is calculated by first multiplying by the
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txsize*</I
></TT
> value, then dividing by the
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txsize/</I
></TT
> value, and finally adding the
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txsize+</I
></TT
> value. The defaults for these are
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1</TT
>, and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>0</TT
>
respectively, which means that the transfer size will remain
unchanged. If for example the transfer size should increase by
approximately 50 per cent each time then suitable values might be
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>txsize* 3</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>txsize/ 2</TT
>,
and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>txsize+ 1</TT
>. </P
><P
>The <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txsize>=</I
></TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txsize<=</I
></TT
> arguments can be used to impose
lower and upper bounds on the transfer. By default the
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>min_size</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>max_size</TT
> values
appropriate for the endpoint will be used. If at any time the
current size falls outside the bounds then it will be normalized.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT2"
><A
NAME="AEN17267"
></A
><H3
>Receive Size</H3
><P
>The receive size, in other words the number of bytes that either host
or target will expect to receive as opposed to the number of bytes
that actually get sent, can be adjusted using a similar set of
arguments: <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxsize1</I
></TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxsize>=</I
></TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxsize<=</I
></TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxsize*</I
></TT
>, <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxsize/</I
></TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxsize+</I
></TT
>. The current receive size will be
adjusted between transfers just like the transmit size. However when
communicating over USB it is not a good idea to attempt to receive
less data than will actually be sent: typically neither the hardware
nor the software will be able to do anything useful with the excess,
so there will be problems. Therefore if at any time the calculated
receive size is less than the transmit size, the actual receive will
be for the exact number of bytes that will get transmitted. However
this will not affect the calculations for the next receive size.</P
><P
>The default values for <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxsize1</I
></TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxsize*</I
></TT
>, <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxsize/</I
></TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxsize+</I
></TT
> are <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>0</TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>0</TT
>
respectively. This means that the calculated receive size will always
be less than the transmit size, so the receive operation will be for
the exact number of bytes transmitted. For some USB protocols this
would not accurately reflect the traffic that will happen. For example
with USB-ethernet transfer sizes will vary between 16 and 1516 bytes,
so the receiver will always expect up to 1516 bytes. This can be
achieved using <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>rxsize1 1516</TT
>, leaving the
other parameters at their default values.</P
><P
>For target hardware which involves non-zero
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>max_in_padding</TT
>, on the host side the padding will
be added automatically to the receive size if necessary.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT2"
><A
NAME="AEN17288"
></A
><H3
>Transmit and Receive Delays</H3
><P
>Typically during the testing there will be some minor delays between
transfers on both host and target. Some of these delays will be caused
by timeslicing, for example another process running on the host, or a
concurrent test thread running inside the target. Other delays will be
caused by the USB bus itself, for example activity from another device
on the bus. However it is desirable that test cases be allowed to
inject additional and somewhat more controlled delays into the system,
for example to make sure that the target behaves correctly even if the
target is not yet ready to receive data from the host.</P
><P
>The transmit delay is controlled by six parameters:
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txdelay1</I
></TT
>, <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txdelay*</I
></TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txdelay/</I
></TT
>, <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txdelay+</I
></TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txdelay>=</I
></TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>txdelay<=</I
></TT
>. The default values for these are
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>0</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1</TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>0</TT
>, <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>0</TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1000000000</TT
> respectively, so that by default
transmits will happen as quickly as possible. Delays are measured in
nanoseconds, so a value of <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1000000</TT
> would correspond
to a delay of 0.001 seconds or one millisecond. By default delays have
an upper bound of one second. Between transfers the transmit delay is
updated in much the same was as the transfer sizes.</P
><P
>The receive delay is controlled by a similar set of six parameters:
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxdelay1</I
></TT
>, <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxdelay*</I
></TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxdelay/</I
></TT
>, <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxdelay+</I
></TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxdelay>=</I
></TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>rxdelay<=</I
></TT
>. The default values for these are
the same as for transmit delays.</P
><P
>The transmit delay is used on the side which sends data over the USB
bus, so for a bulk IN transfer it is the target that sends data and
hence sleeps for the specified transmit delay, while the host receives
data sleeps for the receive delay. For an OUT transfer the positions
are reversed.</P
><P
>It should be noted that although the delays are measured in
nanoseconds, the actual delays will be much less precise and are
likely to be of the order of milliseconds. The exact details will
depend on the kernel clock speed.</P
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN17314"
></A
><H2
>Other Types of Transfer</H2
><P
>Support for testing other types of USB traffic such as isochronous
transfers is not yet implemented.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN17317"
></A
><H2
>Starting a Test and Collecting Results</H2
><P
>A USB test script should prepare one or more transfers using
appropriate functions such as <TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>usbtest::bulktest</TT
>.
Once all the individual tests have been prepared they can be started
by a call to <TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>usbtest::start</TT
>. This takes a single
argument, a maximum duration measured in seconds. If all transfers
have not been completed in the specified time then any remaining
transfers will be aborted.</P
><P
><TT
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>usbtest::start</TT
> will return <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>1</TT
>
if all the tests have succeeded, or <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>0</TT
> if any of
them have failed. More detailed reports will be stored in the
Tcl variable <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>usbtests::results</TT
>, which will be a
list of string messages.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN17327"
></A
><H2
>Existing Test Scripts</H2
><P
>A number of test scripts are provided as standard. These are located
in the <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>host</TT
> subdirectory of the
common USB slave package, and will be installed as part of the process
of building the host-side software. When a script is specified on the
command line <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>usbhost</SPAN
> will first search for
it in the current directory, then in the install tree. Standard
test scripts include the following:</P
><P
></P
><DIV
CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
><DL
><DT
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>list.tcl</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> This script simply displays information about the capabilities
of the target platform, as provided by the target-side USB
device driver. It can help with tracking down problems, but its
primary purpose is to let users check that everything is working
correctly: if running <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>usbhost list.tcl</B
>
outputs sensible information then the user knows that the
target side is running correctly and that communication between
host and target is possible.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>verbose.tcl</TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> The target-side code can provide information about what
is happening while tests are prepared and run. This facility
should not normally be used since the extra I/O involved will
significantly affect the behaviour of the system, but in some
circumstances it may prove useful. Since an eCos application
cannot easily be given command-line arguments the target-side
verbosity level cannot be controlled using
<TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>-V</I
></TT
> or <TT
CLASS="PARAMETER"
><I
>--verbose</I
></TT
>
options. Instead it can be controlled from inside
<SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>gdb</SPAN
> by changing the integer
variable <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>verbose</TT
>. Alternatively it can
be manipulated by running the test script
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>verbose.tcl</TT
>. This script takes a single
argument, the desired verbosity level, which should be a small
integer. For example, to disable target-side run-time logging
the command <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>usbhost verbose 0</B
> can
be used.
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><H2
>Possible Problems</H2
><P
>If all transfers succeed within the specified time then both host and
target remain in synch and further tests can be run without problem.
However, if at any time a failure occurs then things get more
complicated. For example, if the current test involves a series of
bulk OUT transfers and the target detects that for one of these
transfers it received less data than was expected then the test has
failed, and the target will stop accepting data on this endpoint.
However the host-side software may not have detected anything wrong
and is now blocked trying to send the next lot of data.</P
><P
>The test code goes to considerable effort to recover from problems
such as these. On the host-side separate threads are used for
concurrent transfers, and on the target-side appropriate asynchronous
I/O mechanisms are used. In addition there is a control thread on the
host that checks the state of all the main host-side threads, and the
state of the target using private control messages. If it discovers
that one side has stopped sending or receiving data because of an
error and the other side is blocked as a result, it will set certain
flags and then cause one additional transfer to take place. That
additional transfer will have the effect of unblocking the other side,
which then discovers that an error has occurred by checking the
appropriate flags. In this way both host and target should end up back
in synch, and it is possible to move on to the next set of tests.</P
><P
>However, the above assumes that the testing has not triggered any
serious hardware conditions. If instead the target-side hardware has
been left in some strange state so that, for example, it will no
longer raise an interrupt for traffic on a particular endpoint then
recovery is not currently possible, and the testing software will just
hang.</P
><P
>A possible future enhancement to the testing software would allow the
host-side to raise a USB reset signal whenever a failure occurs, in
the hope that this would clear any remaining problems within the
target-side USB hardware.</P
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