Re: MUSB dual-role on AM335x behaving weirdly

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On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 06:35:17PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> Hi Felipe,
> 
> On 18/08/2015 16:13, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 02:36:13PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> >> Hi again Felipe,
> >>
> >> I sent this email again without the capture because it prevented to be delivered
> >> to the mailing lists.
> >>
> >> On 04/08/2015 21:32, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 04:23:02PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> >>>> Hi again,
> >>>> On 04/08/2015 15:08, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> >>>>> Hi Bin,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 02/07/2015 19:05, Bin Liu wrote:
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Gregory CLEMENT
> >>>>>> <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>>> Hi Felipe,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 27/05/2015 11:42, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 26/05/2015 at 09:51:18 -0500, Felipe Balbi wrote :
> >>>>>>>>> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 04:36:33PM -0500, Bin Liu wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> Alexandre,
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Alexandre Belloni
> >>>>>>>>>> <alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>> On 14/05/2015 at 16:16:12 -0500, Bin Liu wrote :
> >>>>>>>>>>>> I think I found the root cause of the problem: board design issue - I
> >>>>>>>>>>>> bet the custom board has too much cap on VBUS line. It should be <
> >>>>>>>>>>>> 10uF.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> We have a custom board that exhibits the issue but it only has a 100nF
> >>>>>>>>>>> cap on VBUS.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Have you measured the VBUS discharging? Is there any way to share your
> >>>>>>>>>> schematics?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Alexandre, any further comments ?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Yeah, I have just got more info.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> This is the relevant part of the schematic:
> >>>>>>>> http://free-electrons.com/~alexandre/usb.png
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> The total VBUS capacitance is 200nF and the USB0 pins are connected
> >>>>>>>> directly to the AM3358 pins. U1 is actually not fitted.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> We didn't measure VBUS discharging but we observe the OTG pin sensing
> >>>>>>>> stops when plugging an OTG cable without any device.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Do you have any news about this topic?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Is there something else that we can do to help solving this issue?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> In the case of CONFIG_USB_MUSB_DUAL_ROLE=y and dr_mode=otg, how is the
> >>>>>> gadget driver configured? It has to be a module not built-in.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Indeed when I configured CONFIG_USB_MUSB_HDRC=m and CONFIG_USB_MUSB_DSPS=m
> >>>>> it worked seamless.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Actually it didn't worked. And now sometimes I even received continuously
> >>>> the following message:
> >>>>
> >>>>  musb_bus_suspend 2484: trying to suspend as a_wait_vfall while active
> >>>
> >>> this is likely because your VBUS hasn't dropped below 0.8V fast enough.
> >>>
> >>> I could only trigger this message in that situation. Use a scope to poke
> >>> at VBUS and see how long is takes to reach 0.8V, this could all be cause
> >>> by too much capacitance on VBUS line.
> >>
> >> We got some news:
> >> "The capacitance on VBUS due to components is 200nF and the additional parasitic
> >> capacitance will be much smaller than this"
> >>
> >> The rail discharge time is ~36ms when an USB drive is removed from the OTG adapter.
> >> I attached a capture of this.
> >>
> >> What do you think about these values?
> >>
> >>
> >> However, "there appears to be a considerable delay between the removal of a usb
> >> drive and the initiation of the VBUS discharge (maybe ~1 second, I wasn't able
> >> to measure this time)."
> > 
> > yeah, this is really weird. I can't think of anything that would make
> > VBUS discharge slower from a SW point of view. Once you remove the
> > cable, VBUS is physically removed and there's nothing else charging it.
> 
> I have more feedback about it: "When I look at it on the oscilloscope
> this isn't a 'slow discharge' like a slowly draining capacitor, it is
> a delay between the removal of a device and the initiation of the
> discharge.  The discharge itself is quite fast once it begins, it just
> seems as if the SOC/driver is taking a long time to notice the cable
> is disconnected. At this stage, this isn't actually a problem, just
> odd."
> 
> While working on this issue we found that the
> tg_state_a_wait_vrise_timeout case seemed not managed by musb_dsps
> driver. I've just submitted a patch for it:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/20/507

cool, I'll test it next week. Good finding btw.

> I made most of my test on a 3.17 kernel and today by using a 4.1
> kernel with the patch I have submitted I didn't manage to reproduce
> the issue. I saw that since 3.17, there were some patches related to
> the babble interrupts; so maybe it was enough to fix the issue we saw.
> It is still weird because one month ago I also tested with a 4.1
> kernel and I had issues...
> 
> It needs more testing to see if it is really fixed because the issue
> comes only time to time. I will keep you inform about our last tests.

all right. Seems like we really need to turn some of those states
handling into a reusable (musb-specific) library.

-- 
balbi

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