Re: USB storage vanilla kernel 3.13 hang on DELL PRECISION M6400

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On 02/12/2014 04:47 PM, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 12.02.2014, 10:37 -0500 schrieb Alan Stern:
>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Stefani Seibold wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Am Dienstag, den 11.02.2014, 11:30 -0500 schrieb Alan Stern:
>>>> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Stefani Seibold wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> I have more information about the bug. I tested with a USB 3.0
>>>>>>> Expresscard and this works with 3.13.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I also found an old USB 1.1 HUB in my USB gadget box. When i attach the
>>>>>>> USB flash storage to the USB 1.1 hub there is also no problem.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Since the USB 1.1 Hub is attached to the EHCI we can assume that the bug
>>>>>>> is not in the phy support nor in the USB storage driver.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So i thing the bug must be located in the EHCI HC driver. 
>>>>>> Yes, it probably is.  Can you build 3.13 with CONFIG_USB_DEBUG enabled?  
>>>>>> Maybe some debugging information will show up in the dmesg log and 
>>>>>> provide a clue.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I tried the kernel with CONFIG_USB_DEBUG, but i did not get any USB Debug
>>>>> after the computer freeze.
>>>> Did anything show up before the freeze?
>>>>
>>>>> After a minute i get the attached output. Sorry i was only able to do screen
>>>>> shot.
>>>> It looks like something locked ehci->lock and then never unlocked it.  
>>>> But from the screen shot, I can't tell where this happened.
>>>>
>>> I was able to get the whole kernel messages via netconsole. I also had
>>> enable CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and all kinds of lock detection.
>>>
>>>
>>> When i attach the USB flash memory (sdc), the system freeze and the
>>> fan's of the machine will get noisy. So i think the CPU is 100 % in use.
>>>
>>> I attach the dmesg output and the current kernel config. 
>>>
>>>> Also, I tried to reproduce this failure on my own computer, using 
>>>> 3.14-rc1, but everything worked correctly.
>>>>
>>> I will try the 3.14 kernel... But it makes me crazy when a bug
>>> disappears without an explanation. 
>> Okay, the debugging info in your dmesg log indicates the cause of the
>> problem.  It looks like the bug is related to commit 88ed9fd50e57
>> (usb/hcd: remove unnecessary local_irq_save) by Michael Opdenacker.  
>>
>> (Note: As far as I can tell, the commit itself is okay, but it exposes 
>> a bug somewhere else in the kernel.)
>>
>> If you revert that commit from 3.13, does it fix the problem?
>>
> Reverting the commit 88ed9fd50e57 solve the problem. Thank you so much.
Oops, I'll try to reproduce and investigate. Thanks for the
investigations!!!

Michael.

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