RE: [PATCH v9 5/6] usb:cdns3 Add Cadence USB3 DRD Driver

[Peter Chen <peter.chen@nxp.com>]

  
> 
> Yes, driver frees not used buffers here.
> I think that it's the safest place for this purpose.
> 
> >
> >>>> +				dma_free_coherent(priv_dev->sysdev, buf-
> >size,
> >>>> +						  buf->buf,
> >>>> +						  buf->dma);
> >>>> +				spin_lock_irqsave(&priv_dev->lock, flags);
> >>>> +
> >>>> +				kfree(buf);
> >>>
> >>>why do you even need this "garbage collector"?
> >>
> >> I need to free not used memory. The once allocated buffer will be
> >> associated with request, but if request.length will be increased in
> >> usb_request then driver will must allocate the  bigger buffer. As I
> >> remember I couldn't call dma_free_coherent in interrupt context so I
> >> had to move it to thread handled. This flag was used to avoid going through
> whole  aligned_buf_list  every time.
> >> In most cases this part will never called int this place
> >
> >Did you try, btw, setting the quirk flag which tells gadget drivers to
> >always allocate buffers aligned to MaxPacketSize? Wouldn't that be enough?
> 
> If found only  quirk_ep_out_aligned_size flag, but it align only buffer size.
> 
> DMA used by this controller must have buffer address aligned to 8.
> I think that on most architecture kmalloc should guarantee such aligned.
> The problem was detected on NXP testing board.
> On my board all buffer address are alignment at least to 8.
> 
 
This un-aligned request buffer address for 8 occurs for Ethernet Gadget (eg, NCM),
it allocates socket buffer with NET_IP_ALIGN, so the last byte of buffer address
is always 2. Although this can be workaround by setting quirk_avoids_skb_reserve,
but we are not sure if all gadget request buffers can be 8 or Max Packet Size aligned.

Peter