Re: [PATCH] usb: ehci: Enable support for 64bit EHCI host controllers in arm64

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On Thu, 15 May 2014, Liviu Dudau wrote:

> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 04:36:25PM +0100, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 May 2014, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 03:11:48PM +0100, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 14 May 2014, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > From: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@xxxxxxx>
> > > > > 
> > > > > arm64 architecture handles correctly 64bit DMAs and can enable support
> > > > > for 64bit EHCI host controllers.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@xxxxxxx>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Ryan Harkin <ryan.harkin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > 
> > > > Did you folks tested this for all sorts of host controllers?  I have no
> > > > way to verify that it works, and last I heard, many (or even most)  
> > > > controllers don't work right with 64-bit DMA.
> > > 
> > > I have tested it with a host controller that is capable of 64-bit DMA and
> > > without this change it doesn't work.
> > 
> > What do you mean it doesn't work?  Can't the host controller use 32-bit
> > DMA?
> 
> It could if arm64 would restrict the DMA addresses to 32-bit, but it doesn't
> and I end up on my platform with USB DMA buffers allocated >4GB address.
> 
> > 
> > >  At the moment it is the only known
> > > USB host controller enabled for arm64. And 64-bit DMA works fine on arm64.
> > 
> > What do you mean?  What happens if you plug in a PCI card containing,
> > say, a Sony EHCI host controller on an arm64 system?
> 
> I don't have one, so I don't know for sure. I will try to find a PCI card that
> can do 32-bit and 64-bit DMA.

What about a PCI card that can only do 32-bit DMA?

> > No, there doesn't.  Just leave the
> > 
> > 		ehci_writel(ehci, 0, &ehci->regs->segment);
> > 
> > line above the "#if CONFIG_ARM64", the way it is in the original code, 
> > and get rid of
> > 
> > 		ehci_writel(ehci, ehci->periodic_dma >> 32,
> > 			    &ehci->regs->segment);
> 
> Actually I need this line because my period_dma addresses have top 32-bit
> values non-zero.

That seems like a bug.

> > Don't forget, the controller uses that same ehci->regs->segment
> > register for ehci->qtd_pool, ehci->qh_pool, ehci->itd_pool, and
> > ehci->sitd_pool as well as ehci->periodic.  If those DMA pools were
> > allocated in different regions of memory (that is, regions whose upper
> > 32 bits were different), the controller wouldn't be able to access
> > them.  The only way to insure they will all be allocated in the same
> > 4-GB region is if they are allocated in the first 4 GB.
> 
> My platform creates all the USB buffers outside the 4GB zone. Need to go back
> to the code to understand if that is due to design or misconfiguration.

If the platform doesn't guarantee that all those pools and buffers will 
lie in the same 4-GB region, it's a misconfiguration.

Alan Stern

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