Re: [PATCH 29/29] arm64: dts: qcom: Harmonize DWC USB3 DT nodes name

Serge Semin
2021-08-19T11:05:28Z

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:44:23PM -0500, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Sun 15 Aug 14:46 CDT 2021, Serge Semin wrote:
>
> > Hello John
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 06:06:24PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 3:09 PM Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 01:09:05PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 12:17 PM Bjorn Andersson
> > > > > <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > > > > > On Jul 21, 2021, 1:45 PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > > > > > > > I had impression that kernel defines interfaces which should be used and
> > > > > > > > are stable (e.g. syscalls, sysfs and so on). This case is example of
> > > > > > > > user-space relying on something not being marked as part of ABI. Instead
> > > > > > > > they found something working for them and now it is being used in "we
> > > > > > > > cannot break existing systems". Basically, AOSP unilaterally created a
> > > > > > > > stable ABI and now kernel has to stick to it.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Really, all normal systems depend on aliases or names and here we have
> > > > > > > > dependency on device address. I proposed way how AOSP should be fixed.
> > > > > > > > Anything happened? Nope.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > First time he sent a possible solution for the problem:
> > > > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201221210423.GA2504@kozik-lap/
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > To sum up you could have used one of the more portable approaches
> > > > > > > 1. add an udc alias to the controller and use it then to refer to the
> > > > > > > corresponding USB controller
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is there such a thing as "UDC alias"? Or are you suggesting that we
> > > > > > should add such feature?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think it would be wonderful if we could identify the UDCs on our
> > > > > > boards as "USB1" and "USB2", or "the one and only USB-C connector". But
> > > > > > unless that will fall back to the existing naming it would break John's
> > > > > > _existing_ userspace.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Well, I'd not hold up the existing userspace I'm using as sacrosanct
> > > > > (AOSP devices still usually don't have to work cross-kernel versions -
> > > > > devboards being the main exception). I'm fine if we can rework
> > > > > userland as proposed, so that the issues can be avoided, but I
> > > > > honestly don't have enough context to really understand what that
> > > > > looks like (no idea what udc aliases are).
> > > > >
> > > > > And whatever we do, the main constraint is that userland has to be
> > > > > able to work with existing LTS kernels and newer kernels.
> > > >
> > > > As I said in my response to Bjorn even if it is added to the kernel it
> > > > won't get to the official LTSes as it would be a new kernel feature.
> > > > New features aren't normally backported to the older kernels.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > > 2. search through DT-nodes looking for a specific compatible/reg
> > > > > > > DT-properties.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > We could define that this is the way, but again we didn't yesterday so
> > > > > > your proposal is not backwards compatible.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > > It may be backwards compatible, but I'm still not clear exactly how it
> > > > > would work.
> > > > >
> > > > > I guess if we look through all
> > > > > sys/bus/platform/devices/*/of_node/compatbile strings for the desired
> > > > > "snps,dwc3", then find which of the directories have the desired
> > > > > address in the string? (The suggestion for looking at reg seems
> > > > > better, but I don't get a char value out of the dwc3 of_node/reg
> > > > > file).
> > > >
> > > > The algorithm is simple:
> > > > 1) You know what USB controllers you have on your platform. They are
> > > > supposed to be compatible with snps,dwc3 string and have some pre-defined
> > > > base address.
> > > > 2) Find all the files in the directory /sys/class/udc/.
> > > > 3) Walk through all the directories in /sys/bus/platform/devices/ with
> > > > names found in 2) and stop on the device with matching compatible/base
> > > > address defined in 1).
> > > >
> > > > In my case the strings could be retrieved like this:
> > > > USB_NAME_COMPAT=$(/sys/bus/platform/devices/1f100000.usb/of_node/compatible | tr '\0' '\t' | cut -f1)
> > > > USB_DEVICE_ADDR="$(head -c 4 /sys/bus/platform/devices/1f100000.usb/of_node/reg | hexdump -ve '/1 "%02x"' | sed -e 's/^0*//g')"
> > >
> > >
> >
> > > Hey Serge,
> > > I just wanted to follow up here. Amit has reworked the db845c AOSP
> > > userland so that it no longer uses the fixed node name, but instead
> > > probes for it:
> > > https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/device/linaro/dragonboard/+/1774872
> > >
> > > Admittedly, it does take a short-cut. As your algorithm above,
> > > digging up the devices and finding the sys/bus path to read the reg
> > > value and pipe through hexdump (which android doesn't have) seemed
> > > overly obtuse when the address is in the node name itself (while the
> > > only way to be sure, one normally doesn't use spectroscopy to
> > > determine the value of a coin when you can read what's printed on it
> > > :). But, should the node naming be further changed at least the
> > > infrastructure we have can be reworked fairly easily to adapt now.
> > >
> > > In any case, as we can handle the name change now, if you want to
> > > resubmit your patch, we would no longer object (but can't promise no
> > > one else might be bitten). Sorry for the delay this caused, and we
> > > appreciate you working with us to find a solution.
> >
> > Great! Thanks for sending the notification. I'll resend the patch with a
> > reference to your report and to the update made to AOSP, as soon as I
> > am done with my current task.
> >
>

> Amit's change makes future versions of AOSP able to cope with changes in
> the UDC name, unfortunately it doesn't change the fact that renaming the
> node breaks compatibility in non-Android user space (or any existing
> branches/tags of AOSP).

After looking over the whole discussion, as I see it there is no
compatibility breakage in this case. But there is an improper UDC
interface usage, which has been fixed by Amit and could be ported to
another AOSP branches/tags if needed. As [1] says user-space is
able to create a USB gadget only with controllers listed in the
directory /sys/class/udc/*. That ABI doesn't change. Note the ABI
doesn't say that if someone found a file there in some kernel
version it will be available there in the in a next version with the
same name. A developer just need to search for the UDC controllers ach
time when a UDC gadget needs to be created.

Anyway as I see it the UDC gadget creation ABI IS indeed abided by
most of the developers since we haven't heard much complains so far
except from John. In case of AOSP the problem has been fixed so we can
get back the modification and proceed with the rest of the patches
review.

[1] Documentation/usb/gadget_configfs.rst

-Sergey

>
> Regards,
> Bjorn