Re: Suspend issues with a LaCie USB hard disk connected

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On Wed, 18 Dec 2013, Daniel Mack wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm facing an issue putting an embedded system to sleep while a Lacie
> external USB hard disk is connected. Relevant kernel messages that occur
> at the attempt are:
> 
> [   13.834731] PM: Sending message for entering DeepSleep mode
> [   13.846575] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
> [   13.858818] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
> [   13.862432] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
> [   13.867349] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
> [   13.870626] Sense Key : 0x5 [current]
> [   13.874602] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
> [   13.877879] ASC=0x20 ASCQ=0x0
> [   13.885053] dpm_run_callback(): scsi_bus_suspend+0x0/0x20 returns -5
> [   13.901130] PM: Device 0:0:0:0 failed to suspend async: error -5
> [   13.907507] PM: Some devices failed to suspend, or early wake event
> detected
> 
> What happens is that in sd_sync_cache(), scsi_execute_req_flags()
> returns 0x08000002, so driver_byte(res) evaluates to DRIVER_SENSE and
> host_byte(res) is DID_OK, which is an unhandled case that leads to -EIO
> eventually.
> 
> I have admittedly not much clue about the SCSI layer, so I wonder what
> would be the best way to fix this. Should DID_OK just be handled as
> non-error condition in the switch? Should the suspend call chain ignore
> such errors from sd_sync_cache()?
> 
> I'm open to suggestions and happy to test patches.

The Sense Key and ASC values indicate that the drive did not understand
the SYNCHRONIZE CACHE command.  A usbmon trace would verify this; see
the instructions in Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt.

Assuming that really is what happened, we have to decide how to handle 
the situation.

Alan Stern

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