On 04/19/2012 01:45 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Stephen Warren wrote:
>
>>>> Note: I found that the immediate resume is because hcd_bus_suspend()
>>>> aborts part-way through due to "suspend raced with wakeup event", which
>>>> is due to ehci_hub_status_data() finding that port_status has all of
>>>> PORT_CSC | PORT_PEC | PORT_OCC set. Is it worth tracking that down
>>>> further? I have no idea if it's an ehci-tegra.c issue or quirk in our
>>>> EHCI HW.
>>>
>>> It's probably because of the recent change to hcd_bus_suspend().
>>> Before that change, it did not call ehci_hub_status_data() after doing
>>> the suspend. But now you see the problem: ehci_hub_status_data()
>>> returns bogus information because the controller has been powered down.
>>> That's the reason why I wanted to update ehci-tegra.c.
>>
>> Aha, I'm beginning to understand!
>>
>>> If you revert commit 879d38e6bc36d73b0ac40ec9b0d839fda9fa8b1a, how well
>>> does the current driver behave?
>>
>> It's basically the same as the patch you posted at the start of this
>> thread. In other words:
>>
>> * When nothing is plugged in, the port(hub) suspends and stays
>> suspended; no oscillating.
>>
>> * When I plug something in, the system doesn't see it.
>>
>> * If I then manually resume the hub ("echo on > usb3/power/control"),
>> new devices are seen, and devices can be unplugged/replugged and seen.
>>
>> * While a device is plugged in, I can "echo auto > usb3/power/control"
>> and it stays operational.
>>
>> So, I guess the only question is: the patch you posted was to solve the
>> problem of seeing bogus status during suspend, which causes the
>> immediate resume; Why doesn't that work?
>
> According to what you said earlier, it _does_ work. That is, you said
> with my patch to ehci-tegra the controller does not resume immediately;
> it goes to low power and stays that way even when a new device is
> plugged in. Which means that wakeup is a problem, but then it's also a
> problem with the existing driver.
OK, well I meant "work overall" i.e. suspend OK and also auto-resume
when something was plugged in, although I guess it looked like I was
talking about just suspending.
> Thus the combination of 879d38e6b plus my ehci-tegra patch leaves
> the behavior basically unchanged. Which is what I wanted to verify.
>
> Unless you have an objection, I'll submit the patch (including the
> change that calls pm_runtime_forbid() unconditionally).
I think that's fine. Thanks for working through this.
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