On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Peter Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 09:52:26AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Peter Chen wrote:
> >
> > > There are several benefits for doing like this:
> > >
> > > - hc_driver can be customized for each hcd
> > > - Other hcd hc_driver's initialization will not affect current one.
> > > We run out NULL pointer dereference problem when one hcd is started
> > > by module_init, and the other is started by otg thread at SMP platform.
> > > The reason for this problem is ehci_init_driver will do memory copy
> > > for current uniform hc_driver, and this memory copy will do memset (as 0)
> > > first, so when the first hcd is running usb_add_hcd, and the second
> > > hcd may clear the uniform hc_driver's space (at ehci_init_driver),
> > > then the first hcd will meet NULL pointer at the same time.
> >
> > It seems to me the real problem is that ehci_init_driver gets called at
> > the wrong time. It's not supposed to be called whenever a new host
> > controller is initialized; rather, it should be called just once when
> > the driver is initialized. This means the call should be in a
> > module_init routine in host.c, not in ci_hdrc_host_init.
> >
>
> But we have no platform driver dedicated for host controller, is it a
> must? The core driver requests io_address, interrupt, dma_mask, etc for
> both device and host driver, and device and host part (we does not take
> it as a driver) should not request resources again.
It doesn't matter. There's no harm in calling ehci_init_driver, even
if the hardware doesn't contain a host controller. The point is that
this call should be made only once, when the main ci_hdrc driver starts
up. It should not be made every time a platform driver registers a
host controller.
> Would you accept it as another use case for ehci driver?
I don't think a new use case is needed. All you have to do is add
something like this to host.c:
static void ci_hdrc_host_driver_init(void)
{
ehci_init_driver(&ci_ehci_hc_driver, &ehci_ci_overrides);
}
module_init(ci_hdrc_host_driver_init);
Can you think of any reason this won't work?
Alan Stern
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