Our Baikal-T1 SoC is equipped with DWC USB3 IP core as a USB2.0 bus
controller. In general the DWC USB3 driver is working well for it except
the ULPI-bus part. We've found out that the DWC USB3 ULPI-bus driver detected
PHY with VID:PID tuple as 0x0000:0x0000, which of course wasn't true since
it was supposed to be 0x0424:0x0006. After a short digging inside the
ulpi.c code and studying the DWC USB3 documentation, it has been
discovered that the ULPI bus IO ops didn't work quite correct. The
busy-loop had stopped waiting before the actual operation was finished. We
found out that the problem was caused by several bugs hidden in the DWC
USB3 ULPI-bus IO implementation.
First of all in accordance with the DWC USB3 databook [1] the ULPI IO
busy-loop is supposed to use the GUSB2PHYACCn.VStsDone flag as an
indication of the PHY vendor control access completion. Instead it polled
the GUSB2PHYACCn.VStsBsy flag, which as we discovered can be cleared a
bit before the VStsDone flag.
Secondly having the simple counter-based loop in the modern kernel is
really a weak design of the busy-looping pattern especially seeing the
ULPI operations delay can be easily estimated [2], since the bus clock is
fixed to 60MHz.
Finally the root cause of the denoted in the prologue problem was due to
the Suspend PHY DWC USB3 feature perception. The commit e0082698b689
("usb: dwc3: ulpi: conditionally resume ULPI PHY") introduced the Suspend
USB2.0 HS/FS/LS PHY regression as the Low-power consumption mode would be
disable after a first attempt to read/write from the ULPI PHY control
registers, and still didn't fix the problem it was originally intended for
since the very first attempt of the ULPI PHY control registers IO would
need much more time than the busy-loop provided. So instead of disabling
the Suspend USB2.0 HS/FS/LS PHY feature we suggest to just extend the
busy-loop delay in case if the GUSB2PHYCFGn.SusPHY flag set to 1. By doing
so we'll eliminate the regression and fix the false busy-loop timeout
problem.
[1] Synopsys DesignWare Cores SuperSpeed USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller
Databook, 2.70a, December 2013, p.388
[2] UTMI+ Low Pin Interface (ULPI) Specification, Revision 1.1,
October 20, 2004, pp. 30 - 36.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/20201010222351.7323-1-Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Changelog v2:
- Add Heikki'es acked-byt tag.
- Resend the series so it wouldn't be lost but merged in the kernel 5.10.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/20201026164050.30380-1-Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Changelog v3:
- Add Fixes tag to the commit log of the patch:
[PATCH 1/3] usb: dwc3: ulpi: Use VStsDone to detect PHY regs access completion
Fixes: e0082698b689 ("usb: dwc3: ulpi: conditionally resume ULPI PHY")
Fixes: 88bc9d194ff6 ("usb: dwc3: add ULPI interface support")
Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pavel Parkhomenko <Pavel.Parkhomenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Serge Semin (3):
usb: dwc3: ulpi: Use VStsDone to detect PHY regs access completion
usb: dwc3: ulpi: Replace CPU-based busyloop with Protocol-based one
usb: dwc3: ulpi: Fix USB2.0 HS/FS/LS PHY suspend regression
drivers/usb/dwc3/core.h | 1 +
drivers/usb/dwc3/ulpi.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
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