Re: [PATCH v9 17/19] usb: resume (wakeup) child device when port is powered on

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On Mon, 12 May 2014, Dan Williams wrote:

> Fixed.  And dropped "wakeup" out of the patch subject.
> 
> > There's a nasty bug here.  I'll let you figure it out for yourself.  :-)
> > Hint: Hiding a variable by declaring another local variable with the 
> > same name in an inner block often leads to trouble.
> 
> Added hub_disconnect_children() and a note in the changelog.
> 
> 8<---------
> Subject: usb: resume child device when port is powered on
> 
> From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Unconditionally wake up the child device when the power session is
> recovered.
> 
> This addresses the following scenarios:
> 
> 1/ The device may need a reset on power-session loss, without this
>    change port power-on recovery exposes khubd to scenarios that
>    usb_port_resume() is set to handle.  Prior to port power control the
>    only time a power session would be lost is during dpm_suspend of the
>    hub.  In that scenario usb_port_resume() is guaranteed to be called
>    prior to khubd running for that port.  With this change we wakeup the
>    child device as soon as possible (prior to khubd running again for this
>    port).
> 
>    Although khubd has facilities to wake a child device it will only do
>    so if the portstatus / portchange indicates a suspend state.  In the
>    case of port power control we are not coming from a hub-port-suspend
>    state.  This implementation simply uses pm_request_resume() to wake the
>    device and relies on the port_dev->status_lock to prevent any collisions
>    between khubd and usb_port_resume().
> 
> 2/ This mechanism rate limits port power toggling.  The minimum port
>    power on/off period is now gated by the child device suspend/resume
>    latency.  Empirically this mitigates devices downgrading their connection
>    on perceived instability of the host connection.  This ratelimiting is
>    really only relevant to port power control testing, but it is a nice
>    side effect of closing the above race.  Namely, the race of khubd for
>    the given port running while a usb_port_resume() event is pending.
> 
> 3/ Going forward we are finding that power-session recovery requires
>    warm-resets (http://marc.info/?t=138659232900003&r=1&w=2).  This
>    mechanism allows for warm-resets to be requested at the same point in
>    the resume path for hub dpm_suspend power session losses, or port
>    rpm_suspend power session losses.
> 
> 4/ If the device *was* disconnected the only time we'll know for sure is
>    after a failed resume, so it's necessary for usb_port_runtime_resume()
>    to expedite a usb_port_resume() to clean up the removed device.  The
>    reasoning for this is "least surprise" for the user. Turning on a port
>    means that hotplug detection is again enabled for the port, it is
>    surprising that devices that were removed while the port was off are not
>    disconnected until they are attempted to be used.  As a user "why would
>    I try to use a device I removed from the system?"
> 
> 1, 2, and 4 are not a problem in the system dpm_resume() case because,
> although the power-session is lost, khubd is frozen until after device
> resume.  For the rpm_resume() case pm_request_resume() is used to
> request re-validation of the device, and if it happens to collide with a
> khubd run we rely on the port_dev->status_lock to synchronize those
> operations.
> 
> Besides testing, the primary scenario where this mechanism is expected
> to be triggered is when the user changes the port power policy
> (control/pm_qos_no_poweroff, or power/control).   Each time power is
> enabled want to revalidate the child device, where the revalidation is
> handled by usb_port_resume().
> 
> Given that this arranges for port_dev->child to be de-referenced in
> usb_port_runtime_resume() we need to make sure not to collide with
> usb_disconnect() that frees the usb_device.  To this end we hold the
> port active with the "child_usage" reference across the disconnect
> event.  Subsequently, the need to access hub->child_usage_bits lead to
> the creation of hub_disconnect_children() to remove any ambiguity of
> which "hub" is being acted on in usb_disconnect() (prompted-by sharp
> eyes from Alan).
> 
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

This version looks good.

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Is that everything?  Or did we skip a few patches in the middle?  It's 
hard to keep track.

Alan Stern

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