Re: [PATCH] usb: xhci: Enable the TRB overfetch quirk on VIA VL805

[Mathias Nyman]

On 7.1.2025 16.35, Michal Pecio wrote:
> Raspberry Pi is a major user of those chips and they discovered a bug -
> when the end of a transfer ring segment is reached, up to four TRBs can
> be prefetched from the next page even if the segment ends with link TRB
> and on page boundary (the chip claims to support standard 4KB pages).
>
> It also appears that if the prefetched TRBs belong to a different ring
> whose doorbell is later rung, they may be used without refreshing from
> system RAM and the endpoint will stay idle if their cycle bit is stale.
>
> Other users complain about IOMMU faults on x86 systems, unsurprisingly.
>
> Deal with it by using existing quirk which allocates a dummy page after
> each transfer ring segment. This was seen to resolve both problems. RPi
> came up with a more efficient solution, shortening each segment by four
> TRBs, but it complicated the driver and they ditched it for this quirk.
>
> Also rename the quirk and add VL805 device ID macro.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Pecio <michal.pecio@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4685
> Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215906
> CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks, adding to queue

-Mathias