USB support in the HardHet Linux 2.4.2 on the IBM Walnut

USB support in the HardHet Linux 2.4.2 on the IBM Walnut

[Alexander Kolesnikov]

Hi All,

We have problems with different USB chips on the Walnut board:

1.Using of a OHCI chip causes to kernel crash. This problem is famous but
we really need to know whether does any "on the shelf" solution for the
particular case exist.

2.When a UHCI chip is used, the USB device connecting to it causes to the
following error messages:

	usb_control/buk_msg:timeout
	usb.c:USB device not accepting new address = XX (error=-110)

The used USB hubs and devices work properly with another OS on the PC
platform.

Thanks in advance.


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Re: USB support in the HardHet Linux 2.4.2 on the IBM Walnut

[Adrian Cox]

Alexander Kolesnikov wrote:


> 2.When a UHCI chip is used, the USB device connecting to it causes to the
> following error messages:
>
>     usb_control/buk_msg:timeout
>     usb.c:USB device not accepting new address = XX (error=-110)


This is most likely either an endianess problem in the UHCI controller
code, or an interrupt problem. The UHCI code in recent 2.4 kernels
(2.4.6 and onwards, I think) supports big-endian hosts. The UHCI code in
the mainstream 2.4.2 did not support big-endian hosts, and I don't think
the HardHat kernel was any different.

--
Adrian Cox   http://www.humboldt.co.uk/


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Re: USB support in the HardHet Linux 2.4.2 on the IBM Walnut

[Eli Chen]

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Alexander,

We have managed to get the USB ohci driver to work on the Walnut board.  I
believe one of the problems was that the 405gp platform did not guarantee
cache coherency for pci-dma.  This is supposedly fixed by patches
ohci-0323*.patch and pcipool patches (you can find on usb-devel mailing
list).

That didn't improve things at all.  Then I discovered that cache invalidates
were happening on addresses not aligned with the 405gp cacheline.  This
junked some good data, and I fixed it by using kmalloc'ed memory for dma and
aligning end addresses manually.  I also have a fix for the Pegasus ethernet
dongle (other drivers probably have to be patched as well.)

The code uses a macro called L1_CACHE_ALIGN:
#define L1_CACHE_ALIGN(x)
(((x)+(L1_CACHE_BYTES-1))&~(L1_CACHE_BYTES-1))

where L1_CACHE_BYTES is 32 for 405gp.


hope this helps!  sorry if it's too messy.  I'll try to help more if I can.

Eli

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Kolesnikov" <akolesni@qualcomm.com>
To: <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:19 AM
Subject: USB support in the HardHet Linux 2.4.2 on the IBM Walnut


>
> Hi All,
>
> We have problems with different USB chips on the Walnut board:
>
> 1.Using of a OHCI chip causes to kernel crash. This problem is famous but
> we really need to know whether does any "on the shelf" solution for the
> particular case exist.
>
> 2.When a UHCI chip is used, the USB device connecting to it causes to the
> following error messages:
>
> usb_control/buk_msg:timeout
> usb.c:USB device not accepting new address = XX (error=-110)
>
> The used USB hubs and devices work properly with another OS on the PC
> platform.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>

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Index: usb.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/routefree/depot/rf/src/hr/linux/include/linux/usb.h,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.2
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -r1.1.1.2 -r1.2
599,600c599,604
< 	struct usb_device_descriptor descriptor;/* Descriptor */
< 	struct usb_config_descriptor *config;	/* All of the configs */
---
> 	/* The reason for the alignment is that we're DMA-ing the descriptor struct,
> 	 * and we want to make sure when the cacheline is invalidated it doesn't clobber
> 	 * any data also in the cacheline, since the descriptor is only 18 bytes.
> 	 */
> 	struct usb_device_descriptor __attribute__ ((aligned(L1_CACHE_BYTES))) descriptor;/* Descriptor */
> 	struct usb_config_descriptor __attribute__ ((aligned(L1_CACHE_BYTES))) *config;	/* All of the configs */

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Index: pegasus.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/routefree/depot/rf/src/hr/linux/drivers/usb/pegasus.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -r1.2 -r1.6
54,55c54,55
< #define	PEGASUS_USE_INTR
< #define	PEGASUS_WRITE_EEPROM
---
> #undef PEGASUS_USE_INTR
> #undef PEGASUS_WRITE_EEPROM
126a127
> 	unsigned char *buffer;
128a130,136
> 	buffer = kmalloc(L1_CACHE_ALIGN(size),GFP_KERNEL);
> 	if (!buffer) {
>                 err("unable to allocate memory for configuration descriptors");
>                 return 0;
>         }
> 	memcpy(buffer,data,size);
> 	
143c151
< 			  data, size, ctrl_callback, pegasus );
---
> 			  buffer, L1_CACHE_ALIGN(size), ctrl_callback, pegasus );
156a165,166
> 	memcpy(data,buffer,size);
> 	kfree(buffer);
163a174
>         unsigned char *buffer;
165a177,183
>         buffer = kmalloc(size,GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!buffer) {
>                 err("unable to allocate memory for configuration descriptors");
>                 return 0;
>         }
>         memcpy(buffer,data,size);
> 
180c198
< 			  data, size, ctrl_callback, pegasus );
---
> 			  buffer, size, ctrl_callback, pegasus );
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> 		kfree(buffer);
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> 	kfree(buffer);
200a221
>         unsigned char *buffer;
203a225,231
>         buffer = kmalloc(1,GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!buffer) {
>                 err("unable to allocate memory for configuration descriptors");
>                 return 0;
>         }
>         memcpy(buffer,&data,1);
> 
218c246
< 			  &data, 1, ctrl_callback, pegasus );
---
> 			  buffer, 1, ctrl_callback, pegasus );
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> 		kfree(buffer);
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> 	kfree(buffer);
Index: usb.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/routefree/depot/rf/src/hr/linux/drivers/usb/usb.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -r1.2 -r1.5
1772c1772
< 				     sizeof(dev->descriptor));
---
> 				     L1_CACHE_ALIGN(sizeof(dev->descriptor)));
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> 	unsigned char *buffer;
1792a1794,1799
> 	buffer = kmalloc(L1_CACHE_ALIGN(1), GFP_KERNEL);
> 	if (!buffer) {
> 		err("unable to allocate memory for configuration descriptors");
> 		return -ENOMEM;
> 	}
> 
1795c1802,1803
< 	    0, ifnum, &type, 1, HZ * GET_TIMEOUT)) < 0)
---
> 	    0, ifnum, buffer, L1_CACHE_ALIGN(1), HZ * GET_TIMEOUT)) < 0) {
> 		kfree(buffer);
1796a1805,1808
> 	}
> 
> 	type = *buffer;
> 	kfree(buffer);
1851a1864
> 	unsigned char *buffer;
1865a1879,1884
> 	buffer = kmalloc(L1_CACHE_ALIGN(sizeof(status)), GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!buffer) {
>                 err("unable to allocate memory for configuration descriptors");
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>         }
> 
1868c1887,1891
< 		&status, sizeof(status), HZ * SET_TIMEOUT);
---
> 		buffer, L1_CACHE_ALIGN(sizeof(status)), HZ * SET_TIMEOUT);
> 
> 	memcpy(&status,buffer,sizeof(status));
> 	kfree(buffer);
> 
1953c1976
< 	unsigned char buffer[8];
---
> 	unsigned char *buffer;
1955,1956c1978
< 	struct usb_config_descriptor *desc =
< 		(struct usb_config_descriptor *)buffer;
---
>  	struct usb_config_descriptor *desc;
1984a2007,2013
> 	buffer = kmalloc(L1_CACHE_ALIGN(8), GFP_KERNEL);
> 	if (!buffer) {
> 		err("unable to allocate memory for configuration descriptors");
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> 	}
> 	desc = (struct usb_config_descriptor *)buffer;
> 
1988c2017
< 		result = usb_get_descriptor(dev, USB_DT_CONFIG, cfgno, buffer, 8);
---
> 		result = usb_get_descriptor(dev, USB_DT_CONFIG, cfgno, buffer, L1_CACHE_ALIGN(8));
2002c2031
< 		bigbuffer = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL);
---
> 		bigbuffer = kmalloc(L1_CACHE_ALIGN(length), GFP_KERNEL);
2010c2039
< 		result = usb_get_descriptor(dev, USB_DT_CONFIG, cfgno, bigbuffer, length);
---
> 		result = usb_get_descriptor(dev, USB_DT_CONFIG, cfgno, bigbuffer, L1_CACHE_ALIGN(length));
2034a2064
> 	kfree(buffer);
2036a2067
> 	kfree(buffer);
2131c2162
< 	err = usb_get_descriptor(dev, USB_DT_DEVICE, 0, &dev->descriptor, 8);
---
> 	err = usb_get_descriptor(dev, USB_DT_DEVICE, 0, &dev->descriptor, L1_CACHE_ALIGN(8));
Index: hub.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/routefree/depot/rf/src/hr/linux/drivers/usb/hub.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -r1.2 -r1.3
128a129
>         unsigned char *buffer;
194c195,204
< 	ret = usb_get_hub_status(dev, &hubstatus);
---
>         buffer = kmalloc(sizeof(struct usb_hub_status),GFP_KERNEL);
> 	if (!buffer) {
>                 err("unable to allocate memory for configuration descriptors");
>                 kfree(hub->descriptor);
>                 return -1;
>         }
>         memcpy(buffer,&hubstatus,sizeof(struct usb_hub_status));
> 	ret = usb_get_hub_status(dev,buffer);
>         memcpy(&hubstatus,buffer,sizeof(struct usb_hub_status));
>         kfree(buffer);
446a457
>         unsigned char *buffer;
453c464,474
< 		ret = usb_get_port_status(hub, port + 1, &portsts);
---
>                 buffer = kmalloc(sizeof(struct usb_hub_status),GFP_KERNEL);
>                 if (buffer) {
>                     memcpy(buffer,&portsts,sizeof(struct usb_hub_status));
>                     ret = usb_get_port_status(hub, port + 1, buffer);
>                     memcpy(&portsts,buffer,sizeof(struct usb_hub_status));
>                     kfree(buffer);
>                 } else {
>                     err("unable to allocate memory for configuration descriptors");
>                     ret = -1;
>                 }
> 
643a665,666
>         unsigned char *buffer;
>         int temp_ret;
687c710,720
< 			ret = usb_get_port_status(dev, i + 1, &portsts);
---
>                         buffer = kmalloc(sizeof(struct usb_hub_status),GFP_KERNEL);
>                         if (buffer) {
>                             memcpy(buffer,&portsts,sizeof(struct usb_hub_status));
>                             ret = usb_get_port_status(dev, i + 1, buffer);
>                             memcpy(&portsts,buffer,sizeof(struct usb_hub_status));
>                             kfree(buffer);
>                         } else {
>                             err("unable to allocate memory for configuration descriptors");
>                             ret = -1;
>                         }
> 
733a767,777
>                 buffer = kmalloc(sizeof(struct usb_hub_status),GFP_KERNEL);
>                 if (buffer) {
>                     memcpy(buffer,&hubsts,sizeof(struct usb_hub_status));
>                     temp_ret = usb_get_hub_status(dev, buffer);
>                     memcpy(&hubsts,buffer,sizeof(struct usb_hub_status));
>                     kfree(buffer);
>                 } else {
>                     err("unable to allocate memory for configuration descriptors");
>                     temp_ret = -1;
>                 }
> 
735c779
< 		if (usb_get_hub_status(dev, &hubsts) < 0)
---
> 		if (temp_ret < 0)
Index: usb-ohci.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/routefree/depot/rf/src/hr/linux/drivers/usb/usb-ohci.h,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -r1.2 -r1.3
60c60
< } __attribute((aligned(16)));
---
> } __attribute((aligned(L1_CACHE_BYTES)));
118c118
< } __attribute((aligned(16)));
---
> } __attribute((aligned(L1_CACHE_BYTES)));
561c561
< 		16 /* byte alignment */,
---
> 		L1_CACHE_BYTES /* byte alignment */,
568c568
< 		16 /* byte alignment */,
---
> 		L1_CACHE_BYTES /* byte alignment */,

Re: USB support in the HardHet Linux 2.4.2 on the IBM Walnut

[Dan Malek]

Eli Chen wrote:

> We have managed to get the USB ohci driver to work on the Walnut board.  I
> believe one of the problems was that the 405gp platform did not guarantee
> cache coherency for pci-dma.


All of the problems found so far are associated with cache coherency.
One of the changes, which still isn't really correct, is to change the
consistent_sync() function to always writeback and invalidate.  We
seem to be more lucky with this, but the proper solution is to cache
line align all buffers subject to DMA.


	-- Dan

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