Re: Behavior of USB controller when receiving isochronous transfers with CRC errors

Re: Behavior of USB controller when receiving isochronous transfers with CRC errors

[Peter Chen]

On 20-06-18 20:24:17, Marc Carino wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I noticed your extensive commits in the mainline for the chipidea USB controller. I must say you’ve done quite a bit of good work - thank you for contributing it all to the community!
> 
> That said, I had a question about the USB controller itself. I’m using an NXP i.MX8M Mini and USB gadget mode (UAC2.0, f_uac2). We have a custom board which needs some signal integrity work. That said, we are expecting to see spurious CRC errors on USB.
> 
> From what I currently know about the controller it seems to properly handle the CRC in hardware by setting the appropriate bit in the TD [1]. In our application we can accept the CRC failure and keep goin, since it’s expected that isochronous transfers can have errors and should keep on coming.
> 

Do you really see the error bit is set at dTD status entry? Which bit,
it is IN or OUT transfer?

> That said, is there a good way to change _hardware_dequeue to let it keep processing the TDs if they’re for isochronous transfers? Or, do you think we need to use a “big hammer” approach, reset everything, and restart the transfers? I would much prefer the former because it minimizes the amount of time and allows us to mask the glitch. On that same vein perhaps we should have a counter for the number of times this occurs, just for debugging reasons.
> 

If the error bit is set, the controller driver returns the error value, it depends on gadget
driver if it stops the ongoing transfer or not.

Peter

> Any advice is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marc
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/usb/chipidea/udc.c?h=v5.8-rc1#n680<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgit.kernel.org%2Fpub%2Fscm%2Flinux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux.git%2Ftree%2Fdrivers%2Fusb%2Fchipidea%2Fudc.c%3Fh%3Dv5.8-rc1%23n680&data=02%7C01%7Cpeter.chen%40nxp.com%7Caf143f6938d443b874a808d813c59503%7C686ea1d3bc2b4c6fa92cd99c5c301635%7C0%7C1%7C637281086611601329&sdata=r%2BA9tByhxiS%2By%2FCv42huoLpsyvx7fCF6hpskNqN8Ut4%3D&reserved=0>
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Thanks,
Peter Chen