[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] usbh/ehci: Increase timeout for enumeration

Igor Grinberg grinberg at compulab.co.il
Fri Dec 7 11:18:29 CET 2012



On 12/07/12 12:03, Igor Grinberg wrote:
> On 12/07/12 10:58, Vipin Kumar wrote:
>> The current logic reads the port status just once after usb_hub_power_on and
>> expects the portstatus and portchange to report the connection status
>> immediately and correctly.
>>
>> Few pen drives are not able to report both of them immediately ie. those pens
>> report the connection change but not the connected state after the first read.
>> This opportunity once lost is gone for ever because the u-boot, unlike linux or
>> any other OS, works in polling mode.
>>
>> This patch modifies the logic to read the port status continuously until the
>> portstatus and portchange both report a connection change as well as a connected
>> state or no connection change and no connection. This logic is placed in a
>> timeout of 10 sec. At the end of it, the pen drive would have either reported a
>> ONE or a ZERO in bit 1 of portstatus as well as portchange.
>>
>> It enhances the set of pen drives which can eventually be detected by u-boot
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vipin Kumar <vipin.kumar at st.com>
>> ---
>> Hello Marek, Igor,
>>
>> I found another way to handle it. Please let me know if it is OK from the USB
>> stack poit of view. The fact is that a few pens do not report a connected status
>> in portstatus while they report a connection change in portchange after a
>> usb_hub_power_on.
>>
>> In this patch, I have tried to compare the connection bit from portstatus and
>> portchange for a timeout of 10 seconds. The situation is asumed to be stable
>> once both of them report the same. This seems to have increased the set of pens
>> supported by u-boot without any apparent side effect
>>
>> Please let me know if this is OK from your side
> 
> Basically, this one looks fine, although I have two minor concerns below.
> 
>>
>> Regards
>> Vipin
>>
>>  common/usb_hub.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
>>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/common/usb_hub.c b/common/usb_hub.c
>> index e4a1201..3a66b0e 100644
>> --- a/common/usb_hub.c
>> +++ b/common/usb_hub.c
>> @@ -396,14 +396,29 @@ static int usb_hub_configure(struct usb_device *dev)
>>  	for (i = 0; i < dev->maxchild; i++) {
>>  		ALLOC_CACHE_ALIGN_BUFFER(struct usb_port_status, portsts, 1);
>>  		unsigned short portstatus, portchange;
>> +		int ret;
>> +		ulong start = get_timer(0);
>> +
>> +		do {
>> +			ret = usb_get_port_status(dev, i + 1, portsts);
>> +			if (ret < 0) {
>> +				USB_HUB_PRINTF("get_port_status failed\n");
>> +				break;
>> +			}
>> +
>> +			portstatus = le16_to_cpu(portsts->wPortStatus);
>> +			portchange = le16_to_cpu(portsts->wPortChange);
>> +
>> +			if ((portchange & USB_PORT_STAT_C_CONNECTION) ==
>> +				(portstatus & USB_PORT_STAT_CONNECTION))
> 
> I don't know if there is any corner case when the above check
> will always fail and so it will always wait a maximal delay time.
> Are those registers that identical, or can there be differences?

Never mind, my mistake, USB_PORT_STAT_C_CONNECTION and USB_PORT_STAT_CONNECTION
are the same bit in the register.

> 
>> +				break;
>> +
>> +			mdelay(100);
>> +		} while (get_timer(start) < CONFIG_SYS_HZ * 10);
> 
> Is there any justification for the CONFIG_SYS_HZ * 10?
> I would be much more fine with this patch if there were any
> (even just test based * 2) reason for that number.

Once you address this one, feel free to add:
Acked-by: Igor Grinberg <grinberg at compulab.co.il>

> 
>>  
>> -		if (usb_get_port_status(dev, i + 1, portsts) < 0) {
>> -			USB_HUB_PRINTF("get_port_status failed\n");
>> +		if (ret < 0)
>>  			continue;
>> -		}
>>  
>> -		portstatus = le16_to_cpu(portsts->wPortStatus);
>> -		portchange = le16_to_cpu(portsts->wPortChange);
>>  		USB_HUB_PRINTF("Port %d Status %X Change %X\n",
>>  				i + 1, portstatus, portchange);
>>  
> 

-- 
Regards,
Igor.


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