On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Roland Weber wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > Did you turn off the computer before booting these kernels (i.e., a > > "cold" boot) or did you reboot when the machine was already running (a > > "warm" boot)? > > I didn't pay attention to that. Most likely, I prepared the debug session > on 3.17.8, warm-booted into kernel-f, froze the machine, then cold-booted > into kernel-g. > Now I tried again, making sure to cold-boot into both kernels. The > differences you noticed are gone, both -f and -g behave as listed for -g. > See below for the full output. And -f still freezes, while -g does not. > > > Here's the corresponding part of the -g kernel log: > > > > > [ 1.017430] pci 0000:00:02.0: Video device with shadowed ROM > > > [ 1.017971] PCI: CLS 64 bytes, default 64 > [...] > > and for the -g kernel: > > > > > /sys/kernel/debug/usb/ehci/0000:00:1d.0/registers now contains: > > > bus pci, device 0000:00:1d.0 > > > EHCI Host Controller > > > EHCI 1.00, rh state running > > > ownership 00000001 Okay. This value for ownership is still wrong, though. > > Have you checked to see if any BIOS updates are available? > > The machine is on v1.08, there have been two updates since: > v1.13: 1. add Elan touchpad support > 2. update EC to v1.5 > v1.10: 1. Add battery ID > > But there's also a guy who reports that external USB drives are > no longer detected during boot after he updated the BIOS to v1.10. > http://community.acer.com/t5/E-and-M-Series/Acer-ES1-111M-doesn-t-detect-USB-Drives-at-boot-phase-anymore/td-p/364139 > > Frankly, I don't dare to upgrade the BIOS right now. I need the > machine in working condition starting Friday next week, until > around Christmas. I'll be teaching lectures once a week and bought > the machine to drive the projector. Most of my spare time will be > consumed by preparing the lectures for the next three months. > If the machine stops booting from external USB devices, I couldn't > reinstall it anymore, nor could I flash a fixed BIOS. I'll have > to set up dual boot with Linux and FreeDOS before I can risk a > BIOS upgrade. Currently, that doesn't fit into my time budget. All right. Maybe at some point in the future. The thing is, I don't want to patch the kernel only to find that the problem has already been fixed in a newer BIOS. > > there are a few other thing you can try. Under a kernel with > > CONFIG_PM enabled, before unbinding the driver try doing: > > > > echo on >/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:1d.0/usb3/power/control > > > > That alone might cause the system to freeze > > It does. I tried with kernel-f and got two lines of output: > usb usb3: usb auto-resume > ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: resume root hub > (freeze) > > > Here's another experiment. At the start of ehci_halt(), before the > > spin_lock_irq(), add this: > > > > if (ehci->rh_state == EHCI_RH_SUSPENDED) { > // I added a printk here > > ehci_writel(ehci, CMD_RUN, &ehci->regs->command); > > msleep(10); > > } > > > > This may end up doing about the same thing as the previous test. > > It does. The last few lines of the debug output are: > ehci_halt: entry > ehci_halt: EHCI_RH_SUSPENDED, running patch writel > ehci_halt: about to readl prematurely > (freeze) The unavoidable conclusion is that your system doesn't work right when this root hub is suspended. (I still think it's the BIOS's fault.) Which suggests yet another test: Under a kernel with CONFIG_PM and CONFIG_PM_SLEEP enabled, what happens when you suspend the system (i.e., suspend-to-RAM) and then wake it up? For this experiment, it may help to add "no_console_suspend" to the boot command line. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
