On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 01:38:32PM +0200, Roger Quadros wrote:
> On 18/03/15 21:49, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, Roger Quadros wrote:
> >
> >> To support OTG we want a mechanism to start and stop
> >> the HCD from the OTG state machine. Add usb_start_hcd()
> >> and usb_stop_hcd().
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq@xxxxxx>
> >
> > There are a few problems in this proposed patch.
> >
> >> +int usb_start_hcd(struct usb_hcd *hcd)
> >> +{
> >> + int retval;
> >> + struct usb_device *rhdev = hcd->self.root_hub;
> >> +
> >> + if (hcd->state != HC_STATE_HALT) {
> >> + dev_err(hcd->self.controller, "not starting a running HCD\n");
> >> + return -EINVAL;
> >> + }
> >> +
> >> + hcd->state = HC_STATE_RUNNING;
> >> + retval = hcd->driver->start(hcd);
> >> + if (retval < 0) {
> >> + dev_err(hcd->self.controller, "startup error %d\n", retval);
> >> + hcd->state = HC_STATE_HALT;
> >> + return retval;
> >> + }
> >> +
> >> + /* starting here, usbcore will pay attention to this root hub */
> >> + if ((retval = register_root_hub(hcd)) != 0)
> >> + goto err_register_root_hub;
> >
> > If the host controller is started more than once, you will end up
> > unregistering and re-registering the root hub. The device core does
> > not allow this. Once a device has been unregistered, you must not try
> > to register it again -- you have to allocate a new device and register
> > it instead.
>
> Understood.
>
> >
> > Also, although you call the driver's ->start method multiple times, the
> > ->reset method is called only once, when the controller is first
> > probed. It's not clear that this will work in a situation where the HC
> > and the UDC share hardware state; after the UDC is stopped it may be
> > necessary to reset the HC before it can run again.
>
> Yes, good point.
> >
> > It might be possible to make this work, but I suspect quite a few
> > drivers would need rewriting first. As another example of the problems
> > you face, consider how stopping a host controller will interact with
> > the driver's PM support (both system suspend and runtime suspend).
>
> Right. This needs more work than I thought.
> >
> > It would be a lot simpler to unbind the host controller driver
> > completely when switching to device mode and rebind it when switching
> > back. I guess that is the sort of heavy-duty approach you want to
> > avoid, but it may be the only practical way forward.
>
> So you mean directly calling usb_add/remove_hcd() from the OTG core?
> I don't see any issues with that other than it being a heavy-duty operation
> like you said and hope that it doesn't violate the OTG spec timing.
>
> Looking at Figure 5-3: "HNP Sequence of Events (FS)" of the OTG 2.0 spec
> we have about 150ms (X10) to switch from B-Device detected A connect (b_wait_acon state)
> to driving bus reset (b_host state). I don't think this should be an issue in modern SoCs
> but I'm not very sure.
>
It is not related toadd/remove hcd, it is the time from receiving PCD
to issue BUS_RESET, the Linux stack can't satisfy OTG spec (150ms) due
to there are some de-bounce waitings.
> In any case I can migrate to the add/remove hcd approach to simplify things.
>
It should be no problem, we use it more than 1 years.
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Best Regards,
Peter Chen
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