Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc3: omap: Fix imprecise external abort and oops on boot

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* Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxxxxxx> [161208 12:10]:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> nothing against it. Would be nice if TI could confirm this is needed and
> >> check if other families might also need it.
> >
> > But as we currently are not using the WRAPRESET bit, the reset
> > function is nop except for the delay. So this just papers over
> > the problem with the delay. We are not really resetting anything
> > until WRAPRESET and probably also CORE_SW_RESET reset are used.
> >
> > I'm now thinking the original $subject patch for dwc3-omap.c
> > is the way to go for the fix. Or possibly even writing to the
> > CORE_SW_RESET bit in dwc3-omap.c probe. The driver needs to be
> > able to initialize the hardware no matter what it's state is
> > in probe :)
> 
> in theory, yeah. In practice, this doesn't work always. For starters,
> we'd probably loose connection to host while handing over IP from
> e.g. u-boot to kernel.
> 
> Not to mention tht with dwc3 we can't simply read EP registers and
> figure out what's the state of the EP. EP registers are a command
> interface to some HW-based command parser/processor. IOW, we can't
> extrapolate internal state machine from a read of the registers.
> 
> All this to say, that we rely on properly reset HW from probe(). At
> least in the context of dwc3 :-)

Yeah I agree we should reset it properly also from PM point of view
to get things into sane state after the bootloader.

> > Then later on we can add separate resets for the wrapper module
> > and dwc3 core. But that's way too intrusive for a fix for sure.
> 
> yeah, that's something for v4.11. Let's go with your fix that just
> clears interrupts early on. Once proper resets are added, then we should
> revert that change.

OK

Tony
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