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 Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 12:49:15PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>> 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 ?
>
> Usually by calling arch_setup_dma_ops().

a driver calling arch_setup_dma_ops() ? Doesn't sound very nice.

>> > 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.
>
> Ah, I think I get it know. We have something similar for
> pci_device_add() which calls arch_setup_dma_ops() (explicitly via
> pci_dma_configure()) since the PCI devices are probed at runtime, so we
> can't specify them in DT. The PCI device inherits some properties from
> the parent node.
>
> The issue with a default swiotlb is that it may not always be the right
> thing like the device being behind an IOMMU.

oh well, then the platform_bus needs some love :-)

-- 
balbi

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