RE: Minor xhci issues (failed to peer) on Dell XPS 13 9350 (Skylake)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Lutomirski [mailto:luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 3:44 PM
> To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Andrew Lutomirski
> <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>; Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; USB
> list <linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Mathias Nyman
> <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxx>; Dominguez, Jared
> <Jared_Dominguez@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Minor xhci issues (failed to peer) on Dell XPS 13 9350 (Skylake)
> 
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:46 AM,  <Mario_Limonciello@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Andy Lutomirski [mailto:luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >>> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 1:41 PM
> >>> To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
> >>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Andy
> Lutomirski
> >>> <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>; Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> USB
> >>> list <linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Mathias Nyman
> >>> <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxx>; Dominguez, Jared
> >>> <Jared_Dominguez@xxxxxxxx>
> >>> Subject: Re: Minor xhci issues (failed to peer) on Dell XPS 13 9350
> (Skylake)
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Mario Limonciello
> >>> <mario_limonciello@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > On 03/12/2016 02:33 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >>> >> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Andy Lutomirski
> <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> >> Got it.  I was barking up the wrong tree.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Q: What happens if _Q66 runs concurrently with itself:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> A:
> >>> >>
> >>> >>             Method (_Q66, 0, NotSerialized)  // _Qxx: EC Query
> >>> >>             {
> >>> >>                 Acquire (PATM, 0x0064)
> >>> >>                 If ((ECRD != One))
> >>> >>                 {
> >>> >>                     Return (Zero)
> >>> >>                 }
> >>> >>
> >>> >>                 NEVT ()
> >>> >>                 Release (PATM)
> >>> >>                 Return (Zero)
> >>> >>             }
> >>> >>
> >>> >> The first one acquires PATM.  The second one fails to acquire PATM
> due
> >>> >> to the timeout, does something potentially harmful when it reenters
> >>> >> NEVT (not sure -- maybe it's fine), then blows up when it tries to
> >>> >> release PATM, which it doesn't hold.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> --Andy
> >>> > Andy,
> >>> >
> >>> > Our team has confirmed this mistake and will issue a fix in a future
> >>> > BIOS.  For now if you want to build your own DSDT to see if this is
> >>> > causing your type-C problems the Release(PATM) will be inserted in
> the
> >>> > obvious location.
> >>> >
> >>> > FWIW this issue will affect many platforms in this generation.  (XPS
> >>> > 9550, XPS 9350, Precision 5510, and more)
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> FYI: the H_EC.CHRG issue seems to be fixed in 1.4.3.  The PATM issue
> >>> is still there by inspection of the code, although I haven't gotten
> >>> unlucky enough to trigger it yet.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the heads up.  I'll poke the team and find out if it was pushed
> >> out, or it was a different fix than previously planned.  If you trigger it and
> >> it's still leading to any problems let me know.
> >>
> >
> >
> > I hit it again.  I haven't seen any observable problem yet, but I also
> > don't have anything connected to the USB-C port right now.  (I don't
> > know what _Q66 is used for, so maybe it has nothing to do with USB-C.
> > But it's certainly not doing whatever it's supposed to do correctly
> > given this bug.
> >
> > [  +0.037295] ACPI Error: Cannot release Mutex [PATM], not acquired
> > (20160108/exmutex-393)
> >
> > [  +0.000011] No Local Variables are initialized for method [_Q66]
> >
> > [  +0.000002] No Arguments are initialized for method [_Q66]
> >
> > [  +0.000003] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed
> > [\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.ECDV._Q66] (Node ffff8802760ec8c0),
> AE_AML_MUTEX_NOT_A
> >
> > --Andy
> 
> I got a DA200 adapter.  When I plugged it in, it said:
> 
> [106415.096022] ACPI Error: [SPRT] Namespace lookup failure,
> AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20160108/dswload2-330)
> 
> [106415.096050] No Local Variables are initialized for method [_E42]
> 
> [106415.096057] No Arguments are initialized for method [_E42]
> 
> [106415.096063] ACPI Exception: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name
> lookup/catalog (20160108/psobject-227)
> [106415.096071] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._E42]
> (Node ffff8802760dbe38), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20160108/psparse-542)
> [106415.096085] ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._E42]
> (Node ffff8802760dbe38), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20160108/psparse-542)
> [106415.096104] ACPI Exception: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, while evaluating
> GPE method [_E42] (20160108/evgpe-592)
> 
> Other than that, it seems to work, at least as far as I can tell
> without connecting the other end to anything.
> 
> --Andy

Thanks, yeah I've noticed a variety of type C devices cause this.  
I've reported already but also didn't find any functional impact.

Since you've got a DA200, I'm a bit curious - does 
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/631759/
activate on it?

I've only got WD15 and TB15's.

Thanks,
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