Hi Peter, Have you ever tried disabling auto-pm? Did things go smoothly if auto-pm is disabled? I always disable usb auto-pm in below way. # echo on | tee /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/control # echo on > /sys/bus/pci/devices/<bus_name>/power/control Thanks, Baolu On 12/05/2015 06:59 PM, Peter Wu wrote: > Hi, > > I rarely use a Realtek USB 3.0 Gigabit Ethernet adapter (vid/pid > 0bda:8153), but when I did last night, it resulted in a lockup of > processes doing networking ("ip link", "ping", "ethtool", ...). > > A (few) minute(s) before that event, I noticed that there was no network > connectivity (ping hung) which was somehow solved by invoking "ethtool > eth1" (triggering runtime pm wakeup?). This same trick did not work at > the next event. Invoking "ethtool eth1", "ip link", etc. hung completely > and interrupt (^C) did not work at all. > > Since that did not work, I pulled the USB adapter and re-inserted it, > hoping it would reset things. That did not work at all, there was a > "usb disconnect" message, but no further driver messages. > > Fast forward an hour, and it has become a disaster. I have terminated > and killed many programs via SysRq but am still unable to get a stable > system that does not hang on network I/O. Even the suspend process > fails so in the end I attempted to shutdown the system. After half an > hour after getting the poweroff message, I issued SysRq + B to reboot > (since SysRq + O did not shut down either). > > Attached are logs with various various backtraces from SysRq and failed > suspend. Let me know if you need more information! > > By the way, often I have to rmmod xhci and re-insert it, otherwise > plugging it in does not result in a detection. A USB 2.0 port does not > have this problem (runtime PM is enabled for all devices). This is the > USB 3.0 port: > > 02:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 > Host Controller [1033:0194] (rev 03) -- 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