Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] usb: dwc3: Trigger a GCTL soft reset when switching modes in DRD

[Felipe Balbi]

Hi,

John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> From: Yu Chen <chenyu56@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Just resending this, as discussion died out a bit and I'm not
> sure how to make further progress. See here for debug data that
> was requested last time around:
>   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CALAqxLXdnaUfJKx0aN9xWwtfWVjMWigPpy2aqsNj56yvnbU80g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> With the current dwc3 code on the HiKey960 we often see the
> COREIDLE flag get stuck off in __dwc3_gadget_start(), which
> seems to prevent the reset irq and causes the USB gadget to
> fail to initialize.
>
> We had seen occasional initialization failures with older
> kernels but with recent 5.x era kernels it seemed to be becoming
> much more common, so I dug back through some older trees and
> realized I dropped this quirk from Yu Chen during upstreaming
> as I couldn't provide a proper rational for it and it didn't
> seem to be necessary. I now realize I was wrong.
>
> After resubmitting the quirk, Thinh Nguyen pointed out that it
> shouldn't be a quirk at all and it is actually mentioned in the
> programming guide that it should be done when switching modes
> in DRD.
>
> So, to avoid these !COREIDLE lockups seen on HiKey960, this
> patch issues GCTL soft reset when switching modes if the
> controller is in DRD mode.
>
> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejas Joglekar <tejas.joglekar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Yang Fei <fei.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: YongQin Liu <yongqin.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thinh Nguyen <thinhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jun Li <lijun.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Yu Chen <chenyu56@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
> * Rework to always call the GCTL soft reset in DRD mode,
>   rather then using a quirk as suggested by Thinh Nguyen
>
> v3:
> * Move GCTL soft reset under the spinlock as suggested by
>   Thinh Nguyen

Because this is such an invasive change, I would prefer that we get
Tested-By tags from a good fraction of the users before applying these
two changes.

-- 
balbi