linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] usb: host: ehci-tegra: Avoid getting the same reset twice

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Date:	Wed, 4 May 2016 16:30:59 +0200
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	Jon Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@...gutronix.de>,
	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] usb: host: ehci-tegra: Avoid getting the same
 reset twice

On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 04:22:02PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>
> 
> Starting with commit 0b52297f2288 ("reset: Add support for shared reset
> controls") there is a reference count for reset control assertions. The
> goal is to allow resets to be shared by multiple devices and an assert
> will take effect only when all instances have asserted the reset.
> 
> In order to preserve backwards-compatibility, all reset controls become
> exclusive by default. This is to ensure that reset_control_assert() can
> immediately assert in hardware.
> 
> However, this new behaviour triggers the following warning in the EHCI
> driver for Tegra:
> 
> [    3.365019] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    3.369639] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at drivers/reset/core.c:187 __of_reset_control_get+0x16c/0x23c
> [    3.382151] Modules linked in:
> [    3.385214] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.6.0-rc6-next-20160503 #140
> [    3.392769] Hardware name: NVIDIA Tegra SoC (Flattened Device Tree)
> [    3.399046] [<c010fa50>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010b120>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> [    3.406787] [<c010b120>] (show_stack) from [<c0347dcc>] (dump_stack+0x90/0xa4)
> [    3.414007] [<c0347dcc>] (dump_stack) from [<c011f4fc>] (__warn+0xe8/0x100)
> [    3.420964] [<c011f4fc>] (__warn) from [<c011f5c4>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x20/0x28)
> [    3.428525] [<c011f5c4>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<c03cc8cc>] (__of_reset_control_get+0x16c/0x23c)
> [    3.437648] [<c03cc8cc>] (__of_reset_control_get) from [<c0526858>] (tegra_ehci_probe+0x394/0x518)
> [    3.446600] [<c0526858>] (tegra_ehci_probe) from [<c04516d8>] (platform_drv_probe+0x4c/0xb0)
> [    3.455029] [<c04516d8>] (platform_drv_probe) from [<c044fe78>] (driver_probe_device+0x1ec/0x330)
> [    3.463892] [<c044fe78>] (driver_probe_device) from [<c0450074>] (__driver_attach+0xb8/0xbc)
> [    3.472320] [<c0450074>] (__driver_attach) from [<c044e1ec>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x68/0x9c)
> [    3.480489] [<c044e1ec>] (bus_for_each_dev) from [<c044f338>] (bus_add_driver+0x1a0/0x218)
> [    3.488743] [<c044f338>] (bus_add_driver) from [<c0450768>] (driver_register+0x78/0xf8)
> [    3.496738] [<c0450768>] (driver_register) from [<c010178c>] (do_one_initcall+0x40/0x170)
> [    3.504909] [<c010178c>] (do_one_initcall) from [<c0c00ddc>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x158/0x1f8)
> [    3.513600] [<c0c00ddc>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c0810784>] (kernel_init+0x8/0x114)
> [    3.521770] [<c0810784>] (kernel_init) from [<c0107778>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
> [    3.529361] ---[ end trace 4bda87dbe4ecef8a ]---
> 
> The reason is that the EHCI implements three ports, each with a separate
> reset line. However the first port's reset also serves as a means to
> reset the UTMI pad for all ports. There is special code in the driver to
> assert and deassert this shared reset at probe time. It needs to do this
> regardless of which port is probed first. Unfortunately this means that
> if the first port is probed first, it will request its own reset line
> and subsequently request the same reset line again (temporarily) to
> perform the reset. This used to work fine before the above-mentioned
> commit, but now triggers the new WARN.
> 
> Work around this by making sure we reuse the port's reset if it happens
> to be the same as the UTMI pad reset.

After having written the commit message for patch 1/2 I now realize that
the above isn't very accurate. I'll try to reword and send v3. Sorry, it
seems like I need to get more sleep.

Thierry

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