Re: Scanner works on USB-2 port but not on USB-3 because of usbfs claiming the interface

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Hi Harald,

Can you point me to the original dmesg from both the successful run
under EHCI and the unsuccessful run under xHCI?  I can't seem to find
it.

I also need dmesg with CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and
CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD_DEBUGGING enabled for the run under xHCI.

Sarah Sharp

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:43:58PM +0200, Harald Judt wrote:
> *BUMP*?
> 
> Am 16.03.2012 10:12, schrieb Harald Judt:
> >Hi Sarah,
> >
> >Am 05.03.2012 18:50, schrieb Sarah Sharp:
> >>Hi Harald,
> >>
> >>Sorry about the lack of response. I'm preparing for a conference this
> >>week, so I won't be able to look into this issue until next week.
> >>
> >>Sarah Sharp
> >
> >I hope you enjoyed the conference. Do you think you can spare some time
> >now to help me with my problem?
> >
> >Harald Judt
> >
> 
> > For reference:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 05:59:17PM +0100, Harald Judt wrote:
> >>
> >> *BUMP*?
> >>
> >> Am 27.02.2012 21:41, schrieb Alan Stern:
> >>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Harald Judt wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>>> In step 4 scanimage hung until I interrupted it, producing
> lots of the
> >>>>>> following repeated lines in dmesg:
> >>>>>> usb 5-1: usbdev_do_ioctl: REAPURBNDELAY
> >>>>>> To save you from excessive scrolling, I've deleted most of these
> >>>>>> repeated lines, as you will recognize when looking at the
> timestamps.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I don't see any of those "usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usbfs while
> >>>>> 'scanimage' sets config #1" messages in either log.  Also, both logs
> >>>>> show that the scanimage program closed the device file and
> then opened
> >>>>> it again (although in the USB-2 case a lot of stuff happened first
> >>>>> whereas in the USB-3 log relatively little happened).  Any idea about
> >>>>> that?
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes, I didn't see these either, neither in dmesg nor in
> >>>> /var/log/messages. But that's because scanbuttond was not
> running, which
> >>>> would normally start "scanimage -L" for initialisation purposes. If I
> >>>> enable scanbuttond and do another scanimage -L manually while the one
> >>>> started by scanbuttond is still running/hanging, I get the
> expected message
> >>>> "usb 5-1: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usbfs while 'scanimage' sets
> >>>> config #1"
> >>>> But I guess this is ok in this case and just a symptom, and something
> >>>> else has to be wrong.
> >>>
> >>> Yes; those messages probably occur because both programs are trying to
> >>> communicate with the scanner at the same time, which is not a good
> >>> idea.  At the very least, scanimage should have an option to skip its
> >>> Set-Configuration step.
> >>>
> >>>> To summarize: The problem is not with usbfs, but with something else.
> >>>>
> >>>>> Both logs show minor errors of various sorts, but nothing really
> >>>>> serious.  At the end of the USB-3 log, it looks like the scanner just
> >>>>> stopped replying.  It's not clear whether this is because of a
> problem
> >>>>> in the scanner or the computer.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Alan Stern
> >>>>
> >>>> I successfully tested the scanner in Windows 7 x64, using a trial
> >>>> version of VueScan, which installs its own scanner driver, as
> Canon does
> >>>> not provide its own for this OS version.
> >>>>
> >>>> Looking at the observations I presented above, I conclude that the
> >>>> problem can neither be the scanner nor the computer, but has to be
> >>>> driver-related. In this case, rather a problem with USB3 because the
> >>>> scanner works perfectly with USB2. BTW: Reproducible with 3.3-rc5+.
> >>>>
> >>>> I guess the "claimed by usbfs" messages occur with scanbuttond because
> >>>> it checks regularly for button presses (on the scanner), and that may
> >>>> hang too, producing the dmesg messages when scanimage calls for
> action.
> >>>>
> >>>> What is your opinion on this? Any suggestions on how to proceed
> from here?
> >>>
> >>> At this point it's up to the maintainer of the xhci-hcd driver (i.e.,
> >>> the USB-3 driver).  Sarah will probably have some ideas for further
> >>> debugging.
> >>>
> >>> Incidentally, now that we have a good idea of the reason for those
> >>> "claimed by usbfs" messages, there's no reason to continue with
> >>> usbfs_snoop turned on.  If desired, almost all of the same information
> >>> can also be obtained in a much more compact form from usbmon (see the
> >>> instructions in Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt).
> >>>
> >>> But maybe Sarah won't want the usbmon info either.  To summarize the
> >>> problem: The scanner in question runs at full-speed.  It works okay
> >>> when attached to a USB-2 port but not when attached to a USB-3 port; at
> >>> some point a bulk transfer fails to complete.
> >>>
> >>> Alan Stern
> 
> -- 
> `Experience is the best teacher.'
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