Re: usb_ep_{dis,en}able() calling context (was: Re: [PATCH 2/3] usb: dwc3: gadget: wait for End Transfer to complete)

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On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:06:49AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> 
> Hi Baolin,
> 
> Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>> Instead of just delaying for 100us, we should
> >>> actually wait for End Transfer Command Complete
> >>> interrupt before moving on. Note that this should
> >>> only be done if we're dealing with one of the core
> >>> revisions that actually require the interrupt before
> >>> moving on.
> >>>
> >>> Reported-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> I've updated this one in order to fix the comment we had about delaying
> >> 100us. No further changes were made, only the comment. Here it is:
> >>
> >> 8<------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> From f3fa94f3171709f787a30e3c5ce69a668960b66e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 14:09:47 +0300
> >> Subject: [PATCH v2] usb: dwc3: gadget: wait for End Transfer to complete
> >>
> >> Instead of just delaying for 100us, we should
> >> actually wait for End Transfer Command Complete
> >> interrupt before moving on. Note that this should
> >> only be done if we're dealing with one of the core
> >> revisions that actually require the interrupt before
> >> moving on.
> >>
> >> Reported-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > From my testing, there are still some problems caused by the nested
> > lock, at lease I found 2 functions will issue the usb_ep_disable()
> > function with spinlock:
> 
> Thanks for testing. Seems like I really need to revisit locking in the
> entire gadget API. In either case, we need to have a larger discussion
> about this situation.
> 
> IMO, usb_ep_disable() and usb_ep_enable() should only be callable from
> process context, but that has never been a requirement before. Still,
> it's not far-fetched to assume that a controller (such as dwc3, but
> probably others) might sleep while cancelling a transfer because they
> need to wait for an Interrupt.
> 
> In fact, we know of two controllers that need this: dwc3 and dwc3.1.
> 
> I wonder if there are any other controllers with this
> requirement. Either way, We should also consider if there are any strong
> reasons to call usb_ep_disable() with interrupts disabled and locks held
> considering that UDC _must_ call ->complete() for each and every
> request.
> 
> If we go ahead with this, it'll mean a rather large series (again) to
> fix all the calling semantics in every single gadget driver for both
> usb_ep_enable() and usb_ep_disable(). Then, making sure all UDC drivers
> respect the requirement, then we update documentation about the
> functions and add might_sleep() to their implementation in udc/core.c
> 
> Anybody objects to this new requirement?
> 

At chipidea driver, it might call usb_ep_disable at interrupt context,
eg, the bus reset interrupt. See chipidea/udc.c isr_reset_handler->
_gadget_stop_activity->usb_ep_disable.

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Best Regards,
Peter Chen
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