Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] usb: dwc2: alloc dma aligned buffer for isoc split in

[Doug Anderson]

Hi,

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 1:55 AM, wlf <wulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> +       } else if (hsotg->params.host_dma) {
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure this is "else if"?  Can't you have descriptor DMA enabled
>>>> in the controller and still need to do a normal DMA transfer if you
>>>> plug in a hub?  Seems like this should be just "if".
>>>
>>> Sorry, I don't understand the case "have descriptor DMA enabled in the
>>> controller and still need to do a normal DMA transfer". But maybe it
>>> still
>>> has another problem if just use "if" here, because it will create kmem
>>> caches for Slave mode which actually doesn't need aligned DMA buf.
>>
>> So right now your code looks like:
>>
>> if (hsotg->params.dma_desc_enable ||
>>      hsotg->params.dma_desc_fs_enable) {
>>      ...
>>      ...
>> } else if (hsotg->params.host_dma) {
>>     ...
>> }
>>
>>
>> I've never played much with "descriptor DMA" on dwc2 because every
>> time I enabled it (last I tried was years ago) a whole bunch of
>> peripherals stopped working and I didn't dig (I just left it off).
>> Thus, I'm no expert on descriptor DMA.  ...that being said, my
>> understanding is that if you enable descriptor DMA in the controller
>> then it will enable a smarter DMA mode for some of the transfers.
>> IIRC Descriptor DMA mode specifically can't handle splits.  Is my
>> memory correct there?  Presumably that means that when you enable
>> descriptor DMA in the controller the driver will automatically fall
>> back to normal Address DMA mode if things get too complicated.  When
>> it falls back to Address DMA mode, presumably dwc2_hcd_init() won't
>> get called again.  That means that any data structures that are needed
>> for Address DMA need to be allocated in dwc2_hcd_init() even if
>> descriptor DMA is enabled because we might need to fall back to
>> Address DMA.
>>
>> Thus, I'm suggesting changing the code to:
>>
>> if (hsotg->params.dma_desc_enable ||
>>      hsotg->params.dma_desc_fs_enable) {
>>      ...
>>      ...
>> }
>>
>> if (hsotg->params.host_dma) {
>>     ...
>> }
>>
>>
>> ...as I said, I'm no expert and I could just be confused.  If
>> something I say seems wrong please correct me.
>
> Ah, I got it. Thanks for your detailed explanation. Although I don't know if
> it's possible that dwc2 driver automatically fall back to normal Address DMA
> mode when desc DMA work abnormally with split, I agree with your suggestion.
> I'll fix it in V4 patch.

Hmm, I guess you're right.  I did a quick search and I can't find any
evidence of a fallback like this.  Maybe I dreamed that.  I found some
old comment in the commit history that said:

/*
 * Disable descriptor dma mode by default as the HW can support
 * it, but does not support it for SPLIT transactions.
 * Disable it for FS devices as well.
 */

...and it looks there's currently nobody using descriptor DMA anyway
(assuming I read the code correctly).  It does seem like people were
ever going to turn it on then it would have to be dynamic as I was
dreaming it was...

-Doug