Thunderbolt adapter fails to instantiate USB and device enumeration if already connected at boot time

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crossposting linux-usb@ and linux-pci@

I filed a bug https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191681 but
was told I need to post to the list first. I'm not actually sure this
is a USB bug, as filed in the bug report, because I think this
USB-C/Thunderbolt port is really a PCIe port that needs to become a
USB port only once the adapter is connected.

Anyway, the gist of the problem is that if the USB-C to USB 3 adapter
is connected at boot time, the kernel doesn't instantiate a USB port
at all. So if for example I have a USB flash drive connected to the
adapter with a Linux live OS on it, the firmware sees the stick, finds
the bootloader, the bootloader finds and loads the kernel and
initramfs - so clearly up to this point it's working properly. But
then I end up at a dracut shell because there's not root fs to be
found. And there's no rootfs because there's no USB bus at all as far
as the kernel is concerned.

If the adapter is not connected at boot time, is connected later on,
it all works as I'd expect it to work. I can plug it in, unplug it,
plug it back in, and it always works fine. So weirdly it's just a "if
connected at boot time" something is becoming deeply confused.

I've tested 4.10-rc1 from kernel.org; but it's been a problem since
kernel 4.7.7 at least. The bug report has lspci, dmidecode, and two
dmesg outputs from boots with the adapter connected at boot time, and
not at boot time (but connected later). That bug report is 4.10-rc1
based with CONFIG_PCIEASPM_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_PCI_DEBUG=y but I'm not really seeing much additional
information that helps figure out what the source of the problem is.


Thanks,


-- 
Chris Murphy
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