A Synopsys USB core used in various SoCs has a bug which might cause that the host controller not issuing ping. When software uses the Doorbell mechanism to remove queue heads, the host controller still has references to the removed queue head even after indicating an Interrupt on Async Advance. This happens if the last executed queue head's Next Link queue head is removed. Consequences of the defect: The Host controller fetches the removed queue head, using memory that would otherwise be deallocated.This results in incorrect transactions on both the USB and system memory. This may result in undefined behavior. Workarounds: 1) If no queue head is active (no Status field's Active bit is set) after removing the queue heads, the software can write one of the valid queue head addresses to the ASYNCLISTADDR register and deallocate the removed queue head's memory after 2 microframes. If one or more of the queue heads is active (the Active bit is set in the Status field) after removing the queue heads, the software can delay memory deallocation after time X, where X is the time required for the Host Controller to go through all the queue heads once. X varies with the number of queue heads and the time required to process periodic transactions: if more periodic transactions must be performed, the Host Controller has less time to process asynchronous transaction processing. 2) Do not use the Doorbell mechanism to remove the queue heads. Disable the Asynchronous Schedule Enable bit instead. The bug has been discussed on the linux-usb-devel mailing-list four years ago, the original thread can be found here: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-usb-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg45345.html This patch implements the first workaround as suggested by David Brownell. The built-in USB host controller of the Atheros AR7130/AR7141/AR7161 SoCs requires this to work properly. Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> Cc: linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- Sorry for sending this twice, i forgot to add some CCs in the first round. drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c | 3 +++ drivers/usb/host/ehci.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c index 233c288..343b8de 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c @@ -1193,6 +1193,9 @@ static void end_unlink_async (struct ehci_hcd *ehci) ehci->reclaim = NULL; start_unlink_async (ehci, next); } + + if (ehci->has_synopsys_hc_bug) + writel((u32)ehci->async->qh_dma, &ehci->regs->async_next); } /* makes sure the async qh will become idle */ diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci.h b/drivers/usb/host/ehci.h index bde823f..7c0151a 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci.h +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci.h @@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ struct ehci_hcd { /* one per controller */ unsigned need_io_watchdog:1; unsigned broken_periodic:1; unsigned fs_i_thresh:1; /* Intel iso scheduling */ + unsigned has_synopsys_hc_bug:1; /* Synopsys HC */ /* required for usb32 quirk */ #define OHCI_CTRL_HCFS (3 << 6) -- 1.7.2.1
