Hi,

John Stultz wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 4:26 AM Felipe Balbi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> John Stultz <[email protected]> writes:
>>> From: Yu Chen <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Just resending this, as discussion died out a bit and I'm not
>>> sure how to make further progress. See here for debug data that
>>> was requested last time around:
>>>   
>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/calaqxlxdnaufjkx0an9xwwtfwvjmwigppy2aqsnj56yvnbu...@mail.gmail.com/__;!!A4F2R9G_pg!LNzuprAeg-O80SgolYkIkW4-ne-M-yLWCDUY9MygAIrQC398Z6gRJ9wnsnlqd3w$
>>>  
>>>
>>> With the current dwc3 code on the HiKey960 we often see the
>>> COREIDLE flag get stuck off in __dwc3_gadget_start(), which
>>> seems to prevent the reset irq and causes the USB gadget to
>>> fail to initialize.
>>>
>>> We had seen occasional initialization failures with older
>>> kernels but with recent 5.x era kernels it seemed to be becoming
>>> much more common, so I dug back through some older trees and
>>> realized I dropped this quirk from Yu Chen during upstreaming
>>> as I couldn't provide a proper rational for it and it didn't
>>> seem to be necessary. I now realize I was wrong.
>>>
>>> After resubmitting the quirk, Thinh Nguyen pointed out that it
>>> shouldn't be a quirk at all and it is actually mentioned in the
>>> programming guide that it should be done when switching modes
>>> in DRD.
>>>
>>> So, to avoid these !COREIDLE lockups seen on HiKey960, this
>>> patch issues GCTL soft reset when switching modes if the
>>> controller is in DRD mode.
>>>
>>> Cc: Felipe Balbi <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Tejas Joglekar <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Yang Fei <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: YongQin Liu <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Thinh Nguyen <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Jun Li <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>> Signed-off-by: Yu Chen <[email protected]>
>>> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>> v2:
>>> * Rework to always call the GCTL soft reset in DRD mode,
>>>   rather then using a quirk as suggested by Thinh Nguyen
>>>
>>> v3:
>>> * Move GCTL soft reset under the spinlock as suggested by
>>>   Thinh Nguyen
>> Because this is such an invasive change, I would prefer that we get
>> Tested-By tags from a good fraction of the users before applying these
>> two changes.
> I'm happy to reach out to folks to try to get that. Though I'm
> wondering if it would be better to put it behind a dts quirk flag, as
> originally proposed?
>    
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/__;!!A4F2R9G_pg!LNzuprAeg-O80SgolYkIkW4-ne-M-yLWCDUY9MygAIrQC398Z6gRJ9wnRWITZfc$
>  
>
> That way folks can enable it for devices as they need?
>
> Again, I'm not trying to force this in as-is, just mostly sending it
> out again for discussion to understand what other approach might work.
>
> thanks
> -john

A quirk would imply something is broken/diverged from the design right?
But it's not the case here, and at least this is needed for HiKey960.
Also, I think Rob will be ok with not adding 1 more quirk to the dwc3
devicetree. :)

BR,
Thinh

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