Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc3: host: inherit dma configuration from parent dev

Felipe Balbi
2016-09-02T14:11:42Z

Hi,

Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> writes:
>> On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 12:43:39PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Thursday, September 1, 2016 5:14:28 PM CEST Leo Li wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi Felipe and Arnd,
>>> >
>>> > It has been a while since the last response to this discussion, but we
>>> > haven't reached an agreement yet! Can we get to a conclusion on if it
>>> > is valid to create child platform device for abstraction purpose? If
>>> > yes, can this child device do DMA by itself?
>>>
>>> I'd say it's no problem for a driver to create child devices in order
>>> to represent different aspects of a device, but you should not rely on
>>> those devices working when used with the dma-mapping interfaces.
>>
>> That's absolutely right. Consider the USB model - only the USB host
>> controller can perform DMA, not the USB devices themselves. All DMA
>> mappings need to be mapped using the USB host controller device struct
>> not the USB device struct.
>>
>> The same _should_ be true everywhere else: the struct device representing
>> the device performing DMA must be the one used to map the transfer.
>
> How do we fix dwc3 in dual-role, then?
>
> Peripheral-side dwc3 is easy, we just require a glue-layer to be present
> and use dwc3.ko's parent device (which will be the PCI device or OF
> device). But for host side dwc3, the problem is slightly more complex
> because we're using xhci-plat.ko by just instantiating a xhci-platform
> device so xhci-plat can probe.
>
> xhci core has no means to know if its own device or the parent of its
> parent should be used for DMA. Any ideas?

another thing to consider is that dwc3 only works on omap because DT
defaults to 32-bit DMA mask for anything described in DT that doesn't
provide dma-ranges. Isn't that somewhat odd as well?

Based on your reply, Russell, dwc3-omap should be the DMA device, but
dwc3 works just as well because of the whole 32-bit default.

--
balbi