On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Gabor Juhos wrote:
> A Synopsys USB core used in various SoCs has a bug which might cause
> that the host controller not issuing ping.
>
> When software uses the Doorbell mechanism to remove queue heads, the
> host controller still has references to the removed queue head even
> after indicating an Interrupt on Async Advance. This happens if the last
> executed queue head's Next Link queue head is removed.
>
> Consequences of the defect:
> The Host controller fetches the removed queue head, using memory that
> would otherwise be deallocated.This results in incorrect transactions on
> both the USB and system memory. This may result in undefined behavior.
>
> Workarounds:
>
> 1) If no queue head is active (no Status field's Active bit is set)
> after removing the queue heads, the software can write one of the valid
> queue head addresses to the ASYNCLISTADDR register and deallocate the
> removed queue head's memory after 2 microframes.
>
> If one or more of the queue heads is active (the Active bit is set in
> the Status field) after removing the queue heads, the software can delay
> memory deallocation after time X, where X is the time required for the
> Host Controller to go through all the queue heads once. X varies with
> the number of queue heads and the time required to process periodic
> transactions: if more periodic transactions must be performed, the Host
> Controller has less time to process asynchronous transaction processing.
>
> 2) Do not use the Doorbell mechanism to remove the queue heads. Disable
> the Asynchronous Schedule Enable bit instead.
>
> The bug has been discussed on the linux-usb-devel mailing-list
> four years ago, the original thread can be found here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg45345.html
>
> This patch implements the first workaround as suggested by David Brownell.
>
> The built-in USB host controller of the Atheros AR7130/AR7141/AR7161 SoCs
> requires this to work properly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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