Re: dwc3 initiated xhci probe problem in arm64 4.4 kernel due to DMA setup

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Hi,

Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:46:47PM +0000, David Fisher wrote:
>> dwc3 is in dual-role, with "synopsys,dwc3" specified in DT.
>> 
>> When xhci is probed, initiated from dwc3/host.c (not DT), we get :
>> xhci-hcd: probe of xhci-hcd.7.auto failed with error -5
>> This -EIO error originated from inside dma_set_mask() down in include/asm-generic/dma-mapping-common.h
>> 
>> If "generic-xhci" is specified in DT instead, it probes fine as a host-only dwc3
>> The difference between DT initiated probe and dwc3 initiated probe is that
>> when DT initiated probe gets to dma_supported, dma_supported is 
>> implemented by swiotlb_dma_supported (previously set up by a DT call to arch_dma_setup_ops).
>> Whereas when dwc3 initiated xhci probe gets to dma_supported, arch_dma_setup_ops has not been called 
>> and dma_supported is only implemented by __dummy_dma_supported, returning 0.
>> 
>> Bisecting finds the "bad" commit as 
>> 1dccb598df549d892b6450c261da54cdd7af44b4  (inbetween 4.4-rc1 and 4.4-rc2)
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/dma-mapping.h
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/dma-mapping.c
>> 
>> Previous to this commit, dma_ops = &swiotlb_dma_ops was done in arm64_dma_init
>> After this commit, the assignment is only done in arch_dma_setup_ops.
>
> This restriction was added on purpose and the arm64 __generic_dma_ops()
> now has a comment:
>
> 	/*
> 	 * We expect no ISA devices, and all other DMA masters are expected to
> 	 * have someone call arch_setup_dma_ops at device creation time.
> 	 */
>

how ?

> The commit above also describes why it is dangerous to assume a fallback
> to swiotlb ops.
>
>> We're not using any dwc3-<glue>.c wrapper here, but we've not needed
>> it before this commit. Relevant ?
>>
>> It might also be possible that we've messed up some KConfig that
>> changed between versions ?  Or is this a bug that needs patching - in
>> arm(64) dma or something different for dma setup in dwc3/host.c ?
>
> What I don't understand is why of_dma_configure() is not called for a
> device with compatible="synopsys,dwc3" in DT (IIUC, you said that you
> specify this in DT and of_platform_populate should do the right
> configuration).

it works fine for dwc3 core, but dwc3 manually creates a device for the
XHCI core it has inside it.

-- 
balbi

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