Re: [PATCH] usb: dwc3: gadget: Stall and restart EP0 if host is unresponsive

From: Wesley Cheng
Date: Wed Apr 05 2023 - 20:10:45 EST


Hi Thinh,

On 4/5/2023 11:49 AM, Thinh Nguyen wrote:
On Tue, Apr 04, 2023, Wesley Cheng wrote:
Hi Thinh,

On 4/4/2023 3:16 PM, Thinh Nguyen wrote:
On Tue, Apr 04, 2023, Wesley Cheng wrote:
Hi Thinh,

On 4/3/2023 6:11 PM, Thinh Nguyen wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2023, Wesley Cheng wrote:
It was observed that there are hosts that may complete pending SETUP
transactions before the stop active transfers and controller halt occurs,
leading to lingering endxfer commands on DEPs on subsequent pullup/gadget
start iterations.

Can you clarify this a bit further? Even though the controller is
halted, you still observed activity?


Yes...I didn't understand how that was possible either, but traces clearly
showed that the controller halt was successful even though there were no
endxfers issued on some EPs. Although, I can't say for certain if those EPs
were actively being used at that time.


The controller should only be halted after the (non-ep0) endpoints are
disabled.

"even though there were no endxferx issued on some EPs", which EPs are
you referring to? If there's no End Transfer issued while the endpoints
are active and started during disconnect, we need to fix that in the
driver.


Sorry let me clarify. When I said there were no endxfers issued, I meant
that they were pending (DWC3_EP_DELAY_STOP is set for those EPs). However,
since the host wasn't moving the EP0 state forward, we never moved back to
the SETUP phase, which is where we flush any pending end transfers.

void dwc3_ep0_out_start(struct dwc3 *dwc)
{
...
for (i = 2; i < DWC3_ENDPOINTS_NUM; i++) {
struct dwc3_ep *dwc3_ep;

dwc3_ep = dwc->eps[i];
if (!dwc3_ep)
continue;

if (!(dwc3_ep->flags & DWC3_EP_DELAY_STOP))
continue;

dwc3_ep->flags &= ~DWC3_EP_DELAY_STOP;
if (dwc->connected)
dwc3_stop_active_transfer(dwc3_ep, true, true);
else
dwc3_remove_requests(dwc, dwc3_ep, -ESHUTDOWN);
}
}

This is part of the reason for moving the wait_for_completion() call until
AFTER the stop active transfers, since that is the point at which we could
potentially set the DWC3_EP_DELAY_STOP. If there is a host not moving the
EP0 state, then we can at least utilize the timeout path to force EP0 back
to the setup phase.


Thanks for the clarification. If I understand correctly, the issue here
is the missing handling of the timeout of the wait for control transfer
completion. This can happen if we enter flow control and/or if the host
delays polling for data. If it times out, then we'll have problems as
you mention above.

In that case, we can halt the control endpoint causing it to respond
with a STALL to the next host polling of data, cancelling the control
transfer. This is what you did with dwc3_ep0_reset_state() on timeout
right?


Yep, that is correct. In addition, I also made sure to call gadget stop at the end of the soft disconnect API, since we wanted to still service EP0 events while polling for the controller halt, right? If we call gadget stop, then we clear the event enable register, so no events are going to occur:

static void __dwc3_gadget_stop(struct dwc3 *dwc)
{
dwc3_gadget_disable_irq(dwc);
__dwc3_gadget_ep_disable(dwc->eps[0]);
__dwc3_gadget_ep_disable(dwc->eps[1]);
}

static void dwc3_gadget_disable_irq(struct dwc3 *dwc)
{
/* mask all interrupts */
dwc3_writel(dwc->regs, DWC3_DEVTEN, 0x00);
}

I think I'll split this change up as well from the timeout related one.

I think this should work as the End Transfer commands should complete
before the controller is halted.


Yes, anyway we poll for the halted status, and in the changes for the endxfer timeouts we increased the poll time to allow for them to complete.

Thanks
Wesley Cheng