From: Chunfeng Yun <chunfeng.yun@mediatek.com>
To: Mika Westerberg <westeri@kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com>,
Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>,
Sven Peter <sven@kernel.org>,
Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@gmail.com>,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno
<angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
<linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org>,
Chunfeng Yun <chunfeng.yun@mediatek.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/7] thunderbolt: Add support platform NHI driver
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 19:48:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110114925.722014-1-chunfeng.yun@mediatek.com> (raw)
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Historically, the USB4 / Thunderbolt subsystem has had a hard dependency
on PCI, bundling the core framework, the PCIe-attached Native Host
Interface (NHI) driver (pci.c), and the Intel Connection Manager (icm.c)
into a single module (thunderbolt.ko).
Modern ARM64 SoCs (such as MediaTek MT8901 / MT8992) integrate the USB4
host router / NHI directly as an MMIO platform device rather than sitting
on an external PCIe bus. Furthermore, embedded and SoC-based platforms
often do not include PCIe-attached host routers or require Intel ICM
support, making a mandatory PCI dependency and bundled PCIe code
undesirable.
This series decouples PCIe NHI and Intel ICM support from the Thunderbolt
core framework, introduces a generic platform NHI driver supporting DT and
ACPI bindings, and addresses link training timing and race condition issues
observed during suspend/resume and authorization.
Overview of Changes
===================
1. Modularization & Namespace Cleanups (Patches 1-3)
- Patches 1 & 2 clean up internal interfaces before exporting. Core NHI
functions are prefixed with standard tb_/tb_ring_ namespace prefixes.
Intel ICM mailbox helpers (nhi_mailbox_cmd/mode) are moved into icm.c
and made static, and interrupt work initialization is internalized in
tb_nhi_probe().
- Patch 3 drops the hard "depends on PCI" from CONFIG_USB4, introduces
CONFIG_USB4_PCI to build PCIe NHI and ICM as an opt-in module
(thunderbolt_pci.ko), and adds a .select_cm() hook in tb_nhi_ops to
allow connection manager selection without core hardcoding.
2. Platform NHI Driver (Patch 4)
- Introduces CONFIG_USB4_PLATFORM (thunderbolt_platform.ko), adding
support for memory-mapped USB4 NHIs via Device Tree ("usb4-nhi-platform")
and ACPI ("ACPI0015").
- Implements platform-specific tb_nhi_ops hooks and runtime PM.
- Adds support for an optional dedicated wakeup interrupt from an
always-on power domain, necessary for SoCs where the primary NHI MAC/PHY
power domain is gated during suspend.
3. Link Training and Disconnect Improvements (Patches 5-6)
- Patch 5 increases the port link training timeout in tb_wait_for_port()
from 1s to 2s. According to the USB4 specification, Phase 5 (Link
Equalization) alone may take up to 1000 ms. When combined with Phases 2-4
(~200 ms) and retimer command transaction delays across dual-retimer
topologies, physical link establishment can legitimately exceed 1.2s–1.5s,
which previously led to spurious disconnects during wakeups.
- Patch 6 decouples the TB_PORT_UNPLUGGED wait time from the overall 2s
link-up timeout. Under normal link training, the port enters
TB_PORT_CONNECTING within ~200 ms. Capping TB_PORT_UNPLUGGED retries to
400 ms allows genuine device disconnect wakeups to be handled promptly
without waiting the full 2s.
4. Prevent Authorization/Teardown Race Warnings (Patch 7)
- Prevents WARNING splats in tb_path_activate() and tb_disconnect_pci()
when sysfs 'authorized' is modified while a downstream router is lost or
unplugged during suspend/resume. Checking sw->is_unplugged avoids
redundant lookups and activation attempts on already-freed tunnels.
Testing
=======
This series has been tested on MediaTek ARM64 SoC platforms with an
integrated platform USB4 NHI, verifying:
- Cold boot, device discovery, and tunnel allocation (PCIe, USB3).
- System/runtime Suspend and wake-on-connect/disconnect/remote wakeup.
- Concurrent sysfs authorization changes during disconnect events.
- Verification of modular builds with CONFIG_USB4_PCI=m and
CONFIG_USB4_PLATFORM=m.
Chunfeng Yun (6):
thunderbolt: Prefix NHI core functions with tb_ and tb_ring_
thunderbolt: Move ICM mailbox functions to icm.c and internalize
interrupt work
thunderbolt: add platform NHI driver
thunderbolt: increase the lane adapter link-up timeout value
thunderbolt: decouple the waiting time of TB_PORT_UNPLUGGED and
TB_PORT_UP
thunderbolt: prevent pcie tunnel activation/teardown warnings
Konrad Dybcio (1):
thunderbolt: Make PCIe NHI support opt-in
drivers/thunderbolt/Kconfig | 20 +++-
drivers/thunderbolt/Makefile | 10 +-
drivers/thunderbolt/ctl.c | 6 +-
drivers/thunderbolt/domain.c | 14 ++-
drivers/thunderbolt/icm.c | 59 +++++++++++
drivers/thunderbolt/nhi.c | 92 ++++--------------
drivers/thunderbolt/nhi.h | 16 ++-
drivers/thunderbolt/pci.c | 50 ++++------
drivers/thunderbolt/platform.c | 172 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c | 26 ++++-
drivers/thunderbolt/tb.c | 7 ++
drivers/thunderbolt/tb.h | 2 -
drivers/thunderbolt/tunnel.c | 1 +
drivers/thunderbolt/xdomain.c | 5 +
include/linux/thunderbolt.h | 4 +
15 files changed, 356 insertions(+), 128 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/thunderbolt/platform.c
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next reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 11:48 Chunfeng Yun [this message]
2026-11-10 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] thunderbolt: Prefix NHI core functions with tb_ and tb_ring_ Chunfeng Yun
2026-11-10 12:42 ` Konrad Dybcio
2026-11-10 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] thunderbolt: Move ICM mailbox functions to icm.c and internalize interrupt work Chunfeng Yun
2026-11-10 14:24 ` Mika Westerberg
2026-11-10 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] thunderbolt: Make PCIe NHI support opt-in Chunfeng Yun
2026-11-10 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] thunderbolt: add platform NHI driver Chunfeng Yun
2026-11-10 12:43 ` Konrad Dybcio
2026-11-10 14:37 ` Mika Westerberg
2026-11-10 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] thunderbolt: increase the lane adapter link-up timeout value Chunfeng Yun
2026-11-10 14:39 ` Mika Westerberg
2026-11-10 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] thunderbolt: decouple the waiting time of TB_PORT_UNPLUGGED and TB_PORT_UP Chunfeng Yun
2026-11-10 14:40 ` Mika Westerberg
2026-11-10 11:48 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] thunderbolt: prevent pcie tunnel activation/teardown warnings Chunfeng Yun
2026-11-10 14:50 ` Mika Westerberg
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