[U-Boot] [PATCH V2] usb: ci_udc: Allocate the qTD list directly

[Marek Vasut]

On Tuesday, July 01, 2014 at 05:16:26 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 07/01/2014 09:13 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 01, 2014 at 05:03:17 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >> On 06/30/2014 06:04 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> Instead of weird allocation of ci_drv->items_mem and then even weirder
> >>> distribution of offsets in this memory area into ci_drv->items array,
> >>> just allocate ci_drv->items as a big slab of aligned memory (replaces
> >>> ci_drv->items_mem) and let ci_get_qtd() do the distribution of offsets
> >>> in this memory area.
> >> 
> >> As I mentioned on IRC, this patch isn't correct.
> >> 
> >> The existing code ensures that each pair of QTDs are correctly aligned,
> >> hence the slight complexity. The new code only actively ensures that the
> >> first QTD is correctly aligned; the subsequent QTDs will only be
> >> correctly aligned if the sizeof the QTD structure is an exact multiple
> >> of the alignment requirements. In practice, it is on my system at least,
> >> but that may not be generally true.
> > 
> > It is on every system with 32b cachelines.
> 
> Sure.
> 
> > On system with 64b cachelines, you
> > won't be able to use one endpoint as both in and out, which I don't think
> > is doable now either.
> 
> Yes, the 2nd QTD in each pair isn't correctly aligned at present for
> 64byte cachelines. I was thinking about sending a patch to fix that
> (perhaps theoretical) issue.

Ah bah, you're right.

> Actually, I wonder if that's related to Jörg's issue at all; his system
> has the cache line size set to 64 even though that's incorrect, perhaps
> that influences the behaviour of the cache code...

My understanding of his test is that he uses u-boot-usb/master + this patch and 
there are not modifications to the CPU support code. If there are, then his test 
is useless of course.

With u-boot-usb/master + this patch , on MX28 there should be no problem.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut