Re: Control message failures kill entire XHCI stack

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On 19.01.2015 22:02, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> Hi Mathias,
> 
> Thanks for getting back to me.
> 
>> There are a couple of xhci bugs triggered by dvb devices:
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75521
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65021
>>
>> The first one (75521) I believe is mostly fixed by patches in 3.18 and early
>> 3.19-rc, so work on a 3.19-rc kernel to eliminate those issues.
> 
> Yeah, I'm already running 3.19-rc1 so I should be in good shape for
> the first issue (and I've never seen any errors that resemble those in
> the bug report).
> 
>> The second bug (65021) looks more like your case, it queues two stop_endpoints
>> commands almost simultaneously, which end up never completing, ->timeout and tear down xhci.
>> That bug has a debug patch for command ring status, you could try it out to check if
>> the command queue is running among other details.
> 
> The second bug definitely looks like what I'm seeing.  I'll try your
> tree and report back my findings.

Ah, let me rebase that tree on top of a more current kernel first.

> 
>> A verbose xhci dmesg log log using:
>> echo -n 'module xhci_hcd =p' > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control
>> could give some insight to what's happening
> 
> Just to be clear, the log I provided in my original email actually was
> with "xhci_hcd +p", but I'm assuming you mean to provide that log
> output after loading up your "for-usb-next-test" tree.
> 

Right, yes logs with the debug patches, and starting earlier to see
what happened before xHCI to stopped responding. 

> I'm happy to ship you a device if you want to reproduce the issue
> locally.  On my 2014 Macbook Pro all I have to do is plug in the
> device and run the tvtime application that ships with most distros,
> and it fails 100% of the time within 5 seconds (you don't actually
> need a DVB or analog TV source connected to hit the bug).  Just email
> me your shipping info off-list if you're interested.
> 

I got one device from sundtek. They said they could reproduce the first
bug easily, but I couldn't. 

If the debug output doesn't give any clues then I could be interested in
one.

-Mathias

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