Re: [PATCH 2/5] usb: gadget: Add function wakeup support

From: Elson Serrao
Date: Thu Aug 18 2022 - 14:17:40 EST




On 8/16/2022 4:51 PM, Thinh Nguyen wrote:
On 8/16/2022, Elson Serrao wrote:


On 8/12/2022 5:46 PM, Thinh Nguyen wrote:
On 8/11/2022, Thinh Nguyen wrote:
On 8/11/2022, Thinh Nguyen wrote:
On 8/11/2022, Elson Serrao wrote:


On 8/9/2022 6:08 PM, Thinh Nguyen wrote:

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To summarize the points:

1) The host only arms function remote wakeup if the device is
capable of
remote wakeup (check USB_CONFIG_ATT_WAKEUP in bmAttributes and
hardware
capability)

2) If the device is in suspend, the device can do remote wakeup
(through
LFPS handshake) if the function is armed for remote wakeup (through
SET_FEATURE(FUNC_SUSPEND)).

3) If the link transitions to U0 after the device triggering a remote
wakeup, the device will also send device notification function
wake for
all the interfaces armed with remote wakeup.

4) If the device is not in suspend, the device can send device
notification function wake if it's in U0.


Now, remote wakeup and function wake device notification are 2
separate
operations. We have the usb_gadget_ops->wakeup() for remote wakeup. I
suggested to maybe add
usb_gadget_ops->send_wakeup_notification(gadget,
intf_id) for the device notification. What you did was combining both
operations in usb_gadget_ops->func_wakeup(). That may only work for
point 4) (assuming you fix the U0 check), but not point 3).

Thank you for your feedback and summary. I will rename func_wakeup to
send_wakeup_notification to better align with the approach. The
reason I
have combined remote_wakeup and function wake notification in
usb_gadget_ops->func_wakeup() is because since the implementation
is at
function/composite level it has no knowledge on the link state. So I
have delegated that task to controller driver to handle the
notification
accordingly. That is do a LFPS handshake first if the device is
suspended and then send notification (explained below). But we can
definitely separate this by adding an additional flag in the composite
layer to set the link state based on the gadget suspend callback
called
when U3 SUSPEND interrupt is received. Let me know if you feel
separating the two is a better approach.


The reason I think we need to separate it is because of point 3. As I
note earlier, the spec states that "If remote wake event occurs in
multiple functions, each function shall send a Function Wake
Notification."

But if there's no remote wake event, and the host brought the device up
instead, then the function suspend state is retained.

If we separate these 2 operations, the caller can check whether the
operation went through properly. For example, if the wakeup() is
initiated properly, but the function wake device notification didn't go
through. We would only need to resend the device notification rather
than initiate remote wakeup again.

If we don't have to send device notification for other interfaces, we
can combine the operations here as you did.


I still think it's better to split up the operations. The way you're
handling it now is not clear.

If the func_awake() returns -EAGAIN, I'd expect that the remote wake did
not go through and expect user to retry again. But here it does initiate
remote wake, but it just does not send device notification yet. This is
confusing.

Also, instead of all the function wake handling coming from the function
driver, now we depend on the controller driver to call function resume()
on state change to U0, which will trigger device notification. What
happen if it doesn't call resume(). There's too many dependencies and it
seems fragile.

I think all this can be handled in the function driver. You can fix the
dwc3 wakeup() and poll for U0/ON state rather than RECOVERY state, which
is what it's supposed to poll.

For transitioning from U3 to U0, the current upstream implementation is
to poll for U0 state when dwc3_gadget_wakeup() is called and it is a
blocking call. (this is a common API for both HS and SS)

    /* poll until Link State changes to ON */
    retries = 20000;

    while (retries--) {
        reg = dwc3_readl(dwc->regs, DWC3_DSTS);

        /* in HS, means ON */
        if (DWC3_DSTS_USBLNKST(reg) == DWC3_LINK_STATE_U0)
            break;
    }

In my experiments I found that certain hosts take longer time to drive
HS resume signalling between the remote wakeup and the resume K and this
time varies across hosts. Hence the above polling timer is not generic
across hosts. So how do we converge on a polling timer value to work
across HS/SS and without blocking the system for a long time?

Can't we take the upper limit of both base on experiment? And it
shouldn't be blocking the whole system.

On the host I was experimenting with, the time it took was around 110ms in HS case. That would translate to a retry count of about ~181,000 in the above polling loop. Wouldn't that be a very large value for polling?
And not sure if there are other hosts that take even longer time


Some data layers like TCP/IP hold a TX lock while sending data (that
causes a remote wakeup event) and hence this wakeup() may run in atomic
context.

Why hold the lock while waiting for the host to wakeup? The host is
still inactive. Also, the usb_gadget_wakeup() API doesn't specify that
it may run in atomic context.


The lock might be held by upper layers who are unaware/independent of underlying transport medium. The above TX lock I was referring to was
that held by Linux networking stack. It just pushes out data the same way it would when USB is active. It is the function/composite layer being aware of the function suspend would now sense this as a remote wake event and perform this additional step of bringing out the link from u3 and then sending device wakeup notification.

In our current upstream implementation of dwc3_gadget_wakeup() API we hold a spinlock as well. But yeah that can be rectified

static int dwc3_gadget_wakeup(struct usb_gadget *g)
{
struct dwc3 *dwc = gadget_to_dwc(g);
unsigned long flags;
int ret;

spin_lock_irqsave(&dwc->lock, flags);
ret = __dwc3_gadget_wakeup(dwc);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dwc->lock, flags);

return ret;
}



To make this generic across hosts, I had switched to interrupt based
approach, enabling link state events and return error value immediately
from the dwc3_gadget_wakeup() API after doing a LFPS handshake. But
yeah, then we have to rely on the resume callback as an indication that
link is transitioned to ON state.


BR,
Thinh