Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] usb: dwc3: core: defer probe on ulpi_read_id timeout

[Thinh Nguyen <Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com>]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022, Ferry Toth wrote:
> 
> On 18-11-2022 03:11, Thinh Nguyen wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022, Ferry Toth wrote:
> > > Since commit 0f010171
> > I don't your update as noted in the v3 change (ie. Greg's suggestions).
> 
> Indeed. I seem to have sent in the wrong sha. Sorry about this.
> 
> > > Dual Role support on Intel Merrifield platform broke due to rearranging
> > > the call to dwc3_get_extcon().
> > > 
> > > It appears to be caused by ulpi_read_id() masking the timeout on the first
> > > test write. In the past dwc3 probe continued by calling dwc3_core_soft_reset()
> > > followed by dwc3_get_extcon() which happend to return -EPROBE_DEFER.
> > > On deferred probe ulpi_read_id() finally succeeded.
> > > 
> > > As we now changed ulpi_read_id() to return -ETIMEDOUT in this case, we
> > > need to handle the error by calling dwc3_core_soft_reset() and request
> > > -EPROBE_DEFER. On deferred probe ulpi_read_id() is retried and succeeds.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Ferry Toth <ftoth@exalondelft.nl>
> > > ---
> > >   drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c | 7 ++++++-
> > >   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c b/drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c
> > > index 648f1c570021..2779f17bffaf 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c
> > > @@ -1106,8 +1106,13 @@ static int dwc3_core_init(struct dwc3 *dwc)
> > >   	if (!dwc->ulpi_ready) {
> > >   		ret = dwc3_core_ulpi_init(dwc);
> > > -		if (ret)
> > > +		if (ret) {
> > > +			if (ret == -ETIMEDOUT) {
> > > +				dwc3_core_soft_reset(dwc);
> > I'm not sure if you saw my previous response. I wanted to check to see
> > if we need to do soft-reset once before ulpi init as part of its
> > initialization.
> I missed it but found it now. I will try your suggestion and answer.

I think it may not be needed now from your experiments noted below.

> > I'm just curious why Andrey Smirnov test doesn't require this change. If
> > it's a quirk for this specific configuration, then the change here is
> > fine. If it's required for all ULPI setup, then we can unconditionally
> > do that for all ULPI setup during initialization.
> 
> Yes me too. I can reproduce that when I build kernel and rootfs with
> buildroot there is no issue. But as soon as I add ftrace / bootconfig the
> issue appears and then I can't analyze the flow. It's seems some kind of
> timing / race.

I think this is very useful info that should go into the commit message.

> 
> However, I have tried deferring without dwc3_core_soft_reset() (to verify if
> it is just a matter of time) and that doesn't work. dwc3 is deferred about
> 10x and then gives up without phy. So, it's not just the time and not just a
> matter of retrying the test write.

Even though we can't root cause the problem, this fix should be fine.

> 
> > > +				ret = -EPROBE_DEFER;
> > > +			}
> > >   			goto err0;
> > > +		}
> > >   		dwc->ulpi_ready = true;
> > >   	}
> > > -- 
> > > 2.37.2
> > > 

Thanks,
Thinh