Re: [PATCH 2/3] USB: ehci: add workaround for Synopsys HC bug

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On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Gabor Juhos wrote:

> 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.

> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-q.c
> @@ -1183,6 +1183,9 @@ 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);
>  }

This should be ehci_writel(ehci, ...).

Alan Stern




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