dwc3: add support for hardware with multiple ports on USB2 hub enabled

Martin Blumenstingl martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 9 03:50:39 PST 2017


On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Felipe Balbi
<felipe.balbi at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com> writes:
>>> Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com> writes:
>>>> while adding USB support on the Amlogic Meson GXL / GXM SoCs I have
>>>> come across something I did not know yet:
>>>> dwc3 has an internal USB2 hub (from what I can read in the code there
>>>> seem to be multiple USB3 ports supported as well).
>>>
>>> no, that's not true. It has a roothub when working as host. But that's
>>> it. When working as peripheral, it's always single-port AFAIR.
>> OK, I should have been more clear here: I am only talking about
>> host-mode since DWC3_GHWPARAMS0 on the GXL/GXM SoCs has a value of
>> 0x20208009 which translates to "DWC3_GHWPARAMS0_MODE_HOST".
>>
>> are you sure about the fact that it does not have an internal hub?
>> What I see in both, the vendor kernel's and my own patched mainline
>> kernel log is:
>> [   19.130331 at 3] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.0.auto: xHCI Host Controller
>> [   19.130385 at 3] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.0.auto: new USB bus registered,
>> assigned bus number 1
>> [   19.139666 at 3] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.0.auto: irq 62, io mem 0xc9000000
>> [   19.145295 at 3] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
>
> this is the roothub :-)
agreed :)

>> [   19.148098 at 3] hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
this is the one I wanted to point out: in this case there are 3 ports
on the (USB2) roothub.
the SoC has one USB2 for each of these ports, and all 3 PHYs have to
be initialized to get USB working (this seems to be my main issue).

>> [   19.152396 at 3] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.0.auto: xHCI Host Controller
>> [   19.157813 at 3] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.0.auto: new USB bus registered,
>> assigned bus number 2
>> [   19.166598 at 3] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
>> [   19.169452 at 3] hub 2-0:1.0: config failed, hub doesn't have any
>> ports! (err -19)
>> This is from a GXM SoC which also comes with 3x USB2 PHYs (these are
>> not Synopsys DesignWare PHYs but custom ones from Amlogic).
>> I see similar messages but with "2 ports detect" on a GXL SoC which
>> comes with 2x USB2 PHYs.
>
> The fact that is claims that it has "no ports" hints at quirk caused,
> likely, by poor RTL edits. coreConsultant should make sure that
> MAX_PORTS (in xHCI HCC_PARAMS* register set) was set to correct value,
> but somehow that field is set to 0 in one of your Amlogic SoC.
yes, it's a USB2-only configuration (so there are no USB3 ports on the
internal roothub)

>>>> When searching the web I did not come across any SoC that uses a
>>>> configuration with more than one port enabled.
>>>>
>>>> On my Amlogic Meson GXM device (consumer device, no development board)
>>>> I see the following USB2 PHY register configuration (full register
>>>> dump from the kernel that was shipped with the device is attached):
>>>> GUSB2PHYCFG(0) = 0x40102500
>>>> GUSB2PHYCFG(1) = 0x40102540
>>>> GUSB2PHYCFG(2) = 0x40102540
>>>
>>> multiple PHYs are only used by the host block (xHCI). Don't touch these
>>> and just let xHCI core handle the ports.
>> could you be more specific with "xHCI core" - do you mean the core in
>> the dwc3 IP or drivers/usb/host/xhci-*?
>> However, we still have a "problem" here: the USB PHYs for each
>> "enabled" port have to be turned on (if I leave only one USB PHY
>> disabled then none of the ports is working). unfortunately the current
>> code (both, in dwc3 and drivers/usb/host/*) assumes that there's
>> either 0 or 1 PHY for each HCD.
>>
>>>> Then vendor kernel sources (a 3.14 kernel) are adding the resets for
>>>> GUSB2PHYCFG([1-3]) in dwc3_core_soft_reset().
>>>
>>> That shouldn't be necessary, actually. If it is, it means the HW was
>>> poorly integrated. In that case, we _can_ add the other resets, but I
>>> need confirmation that they are needed by means of a public errata
>>> document.
>>>
>>>> A mainline 4.9+(Meson GXL USB PHY patches + dwc3/xhci-plat DMA patches
>>>> from linux-usb) kernel works fine even with just applying the reset to
>>>> GUSB2PHYCFG(0).
>>>
>>> there you go
>> does that mean that the reset of GUSB2PHYCFG(0) (which is part of the
>> current dwc3 code in dwc3_phy_setup) is done only because of the
>> quirks/erratas? in other words: do you mean that one would not have to
>> reset GUSB2PHYCFG(0) if there were no erratas?
>
> no, it's done for peripheral configuration of dwc3. Look at the code
> more carefully:
sorry for the confusion - the word "reset" should be "configuration".
The function I am looking at is dwc3_phy_setup(): apart from toggling
some "errata bits" it also configures the PHY modes. I am wondering if
I need to do this setup (DWC3_GUSB2PHYCFG_ULPI_UTMI and
DWC3_GUSB2PHYCFG_PHYIF_MASK related bits) not only for the *first*
port ("DWC3_GUSB2PHYCFG(0)") but also for the "other" ports (index 1
and 2 in above case, where the roothub has 3 ports)



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