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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Hi,

Peter Chen <hzpeterchen@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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.

That implementation is wrong. You should tell the gadget driver that
reset happened by calling usb_gadget_udc_reset(). It's just that
usb_gadget_udc_reset() would also need to be called with IRQs enabled
after this rework happens.

-- 
balbi

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