[PATCH v5] phy: renesas: rcar-gen3-usb2: Avoid long delay in atomic context
claudiu beznea
claudiu.beznea at tuxon.dev
Fri Sep 11 09:16:51 PDT 2026
Hi, Pavel,
On 9/8/26 13:52, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> From: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea.uj at bp.renesas.com>
>>
>> To address this, release the spin lock before sleeping for 20 ms as
>> required by the HW manual and reacquire it afterwards. To avoid other
>> threads entering the critical section and configuring the HW while the
>> software is waiting for the OTG initialization to complete, introduce the
>> otg_initializing variable alongside the otg_init_done wait
>> queue. Any
>
> This is quite complex.
I agree. I tried to keep the current driver capabilities and adjust it for the
long delay.
> How is this solved in mainline?
What do you mean by "How is this solved in mainline?" ? This patch is intended
for mainline.
>
>> To avoid failures when multiple PHYs call struct
>> phy_ops::rcar_gen3_phy_usb2_init() simultaneously, and the PHY responsible
>> for initializing the OTG either fails or deinit quiqly and another PHY
>> takes over the PHY init role), the code waiting for the
>> channel->otg_init_done wait queue retries up to NUM_OF_PHYS times.
>
> And more complexity.
>
> Example of the code is quoted below, and we are returning EBUSY to
> userspace if it tries to change role at the wrong time. Not great.
>
> As far as I understand, the initialization on needs to be done
> once.
Yes.
> Instead of exposing /sys interfaces before hardware is ready,
> and then doing complex dance when /sys is accessed, could we
> initialize hardware in rcar_gen3_phy_usb2_probe or something?
It may be achievable, I haven't tried, but that would involve, at least,
enabling PHY related stuff that consumes power at times this may not be needed.
>
> Looking at the code:
>
> /* If current and new mode is the same, this returns the error */
> if (cur_mode == new_mode)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> this should probably just return success? (EINVAL is certainly wrong
> error code here.)
Things could be improved, indeed. This is however code that was present in this
driver before this patch.
Thank you,
Claudiu
>
> Best regards,
> Pavel
>
>> +++ b/drivers/phy/renesas/phy-rcar-gen3-usb2.c
>> @@ -392,26 +408,58 @@ static ssize_t role_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
>> struct rcar_gen3_chan *ch = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
>> bool is_b_device;
>> enum phy_mode cur_mode, new_mode;
>> + int retries = NUM_OF_PHYS;
>> + unsigned long flags;
>> + int ret = -EIO;
>>
>> - guard(spinlock_irqsave)(&ch->lock);
>> + spin_lock_irqsave(&ch->lock, flags);
>>
>> - if (!ch->is_otg_channel || !rcar_gen3_is_any_otg_rphy_initialized(ch))
>> - return -EIO;
>> + if (!ch->is_otg_channel)
>> + goto unlock;
>> +
>> + while (retries-- && ch->otg_initializing) {
>> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ch->lock, flags);
>> +
>> + ret = wait_event_timeout(ch->otg_init_done, !ch->otg_initializing,
>> + USB2_OTG_INIT_TIMEOUT);
>> + ret = ret ? 0 : -ETIMEDOUT;
>> + if (ret && !retries)
>> + goto exit;
>> +
>> + spin_lock_irqsave(&ch->lock, flags);
>> + }
>> +
>> + /* If another thread started a new initialization just return -EBUSY. */
>> + if (ch->otg_initializing) {
>> + ret = -EBUSY;
>> + goto unlock;
> ...
>> @@ -1007,6 +1226,7 @@ static int rcar_gen3_phy_usb2_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> return ret;
>>
>> spin_lock_init(&channel->lock);
>> + init_waitqueue_head(&channel->otg_init_done);
>> for (i = 0; i < NUM_OF_PHYS; i++) {
>> channel->rphys[i].phy = devm_phy_create(dev, NULL,
>> channel->phy_data->phy_usb2_ops);
>
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