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Message-ID: <20170511185528.GW3489@atomide.com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 11:55:28 -0700
From: Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To: Bin Liu <b-liu@...com>,
Moreno Bartalucci <moreno.bartalucci@...norama.it>,
Lars Melin <larsm17@...il.com>,
"linux-omap@...r.kernel.org" <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb-musb: keep VBUS on when device is disconnected
* Bin Liu <b-liu@...com> [170511 11:53]:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:55:37AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Bin Liu <b-liu@...com> [170327 10:17]:
> > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 09:59:47AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > > * Moreno Bartalucci <moreno.bartalucci@...norama.it> [170327 09:23]:
> > > > > If I understood your patch, however, if the device (anyone, not just my one) takes longer to switch, VBUS is deasserted anyway.
> > > >
> > > > Yeah some of them can take at least 10 seconds even to enumerate.
> > > > So probably we need to have to have some longer timeout set for
> > > > OTG_STATE_A_WAIT_BCON, like 20 or 30 seconds.
> > > >
> > > > > Although this patch is working for me, personally I would prefer a solution which would not deassert VBUS. At least on a host only port. Honestly I don’t know how a dual role port should work.
> > > >
> > > > It's been really long time since I read the OTG spec. There
> > > > may be some diagram showing the required timeouts in the spec
> > > > if there is one for VBUS.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe we need some property to specify vbus-always-on-in-host-mode?
> > >
> > > The MUSB otg state machine has been changed in many place since the last
> > > time I looked at it, and I am not sure how exactly it works now.
> >
> > Yup.. I looked up the timers in the OTG spec and they are described
> > in chapter "8.5.5.2" as a_wait_bcon_tmo or a_wait_bcon_tmr. But
> > I could not find any values for them.
> >
> > Anyways, clearly we want things working with real devices :)
> >
> > > If the $subject patch can correctly keep the VBUS on for host-only mode,
> > > we can somehow use dr_modei value to distinguish the mode. We don't have
> > > to create a new vbus-always-on-in-host-mode flag. VBUS has to be always
> > > on in host-only mode anyway, until some error condition happens.
> >
> > Yeh and it seems PM still works with the $subject patch also for
> > host mode. So maybe that's enough to fix the issue.
> >
> > Also I don't have any idea why for ages we have been writing
> > 0 to devctl there.. Maybe we've had a bug there that only now
> > shows up when we idle things.
>
> The otg state machine implementation in the musb drivers are kind of strange.
> OTG_STATE_A_WAIT_BCON suppose to be a steady state when no usb device is
> attached, but the musb drivers use it as a transient state to handle error
> cases, such as overcurrent ot HNP timeout, which is done in the 'case
> OTG_STATE_A_WAIT_BCON' branch in otg_timer() (or dsps_check_status() for dsps
> glue).
>
> Then later when 2f3fd2c5bde1 adds
>
> - /* Poll for ID change in OTG port mode */
> - if (musb->xceiv->otg->state == OTG_STATE_B_IDLE &&
> - musb->port_mode == MUSB_PORT_MODE_DUAL_ROLE)
> + /* Poll for ID change and connect */
> + switch (musb->xceiv->otg->state) {
> + case OTG_STATE_B_IDLE:
> + case OTG_STATE_A_WAIT_BCON:
> mod_timer(&glue->timer, jiffies +
> msecs_to_jiffies(wrp->poll_timeout));
> + break;
>
> which causes dsps_check_status (or otg_timer()) got called for a normal
> condition with OTG_STATE_A_WAIT_BCON, then turns off VBUS...
>
> Will try to see how to solve this...
Maybe we just need to add back the earlier check for non-OTG devices
"musb->port_mode == MUSB_PORT_MODE_DUAL_ROLE" into case
OTG_STATE_A_WAIT_BCON?
Not sure if am335x configured with host port ever idle that way,
but maybe VBUS can be kept on with musb idle.
Regards,
Tony
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