Re: [PATCH] drvier: usb: dwc3: Fix runtime PM trying to activate child device xxx.dwc3 but parent is not active

Thinh Nguyen
2025-08-29T20:13:23Z

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM Thinh Nguyen <Thinh.Nguyen@synopsys.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2025, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 12:43:17AM +0000, Thinh Nguyen wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2025, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ryan:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > You should present your questions to the maintainer of the kernel's
> > > > > > Power Management subsystem, Rafael Wysocki (added to the To: list for
> > > > > > this email).
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks Alan!
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 10:09:10PM +0800, ryan zhou wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi Roy,
> > > > > > > Thank you for reviewing my patch.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Wouldn't the parent glue dev already resume before resuming the child dwc3?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > No, in the following case, the parent device will not be reviewed
> > > > > > > before resuming the child device.
> > > > > > > Taking the 'imx8mp-dwc3' driver as an example.
> > > > > > > Step 1.usb disconnect trigger: the child device dwc3 enter runtime
> > > > > > > suspend state firstly, followed by
> > > > > > > the parent device imx8mp-dwc3 enters runtime suspend
> > > > > > > flow:dwc3_runtime_suspend->dwc3_imx8mp_runtime_suspend
> > > > > > > Step2.system deep trigger:consistent with the runtime suspend flow,
> > > > > > > child enters pm suspend and followed
> > > > > > > by parent
> > > > > > > flow: dwc3_pm_suspend->dwc3_imx8mp_pm_suspend
> > > > > > > Step3: After dwc3_pm_suspend, and before dwc3_imx8mp_pm_suspend, a
> > > > > > > task terminated the system suspend process
> > > > > > > . The system will resume from the checkpoint, and resume devices in
> > > > > > > the suspended state in the reverse
> > > > > > > of pm suspend, but excluding the parent device imx8mp-dwc3 since it
> > > > > > > did not execute the suspend process.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >Why would 'runtime PM trying to activate child device xxx.dwc3 but parent is not active' happen in the first place?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Following the above analysis, dwc3_resume calls
> > > > >
> > > > > I assume that dwc3_pm_resume() is meant here.
> > > > >
> > > > > > > pm_runtime_set_active(dev), it checks the
> > > > > > > parent.power->runtime_status is not RPM_ACTIVE and outputs the error log.
> > > > >
> > > > > And it does so because enabling runtime PM for the child with
> > > > > runtime_status == RPM_ACTIVE does not make sense when the parent has
> > > > > runtime PM enabled and its status is not RPM_ACTIVE.
> > > > >
> > > > > It looks like the runtime PM status of the parent is not as expected,
> > > >
> > > > So is the scenario Ryan brought up unexpected? What are we missing here
> > > > and where should the fix be in?
> > > >
> > > > > but quite frankly I don't quite follow the logic in dwc3_pm_resume().
> > > > >
> > > > > Why does it disable runtime PM just for the duration of
> > > > > dwc3_resume_common()? If runtime PM is functional before the
> > > > > pm_runtime_disable() call in dwc3_pm_resume(), the device may as well
> > > > > be resumed by calling pm_runtime_resume() on it without disabling
> > > > > runtime PM. In turn, if runtime PM is not functional at that point,
> > > > > it should not be enabled.
> > > >
> > > > Base on git-blame, I hope this will answer your question:
> > > >
> > > > 68c26fe58182 ("usb: dwc3: set pm runtime active before resume common")
> > > >
> > > > For device mode, if PM runtime autosuspend feature enabled, the
> > > > runtime power status of dwc3 may be suspended when run dwc3_resume(),
> > > > and dwc3 gadget would not be configured in dwc3_gadget_run_stop().
> > > > It would cause gadget connected failed if USB cable has been plugged
> > > > before PM resume. So move forward pm_runtime_set_active() to fix it.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In certain platforms, they probably need the phy to be active to perform
> > > > dwc3_resume_common().
> > >
> > > It sounds like the real question is how we should deal with an
> > > interrupted system suspend. Suppose parent device A and child device B
> > > are both in runtime suspend when a system sleep transition begins. The
> > > PM core invokes the ->suspend callback of B (and let's say the callback
> > > doesn't need to do anything because B is already suspended with the
> > > appropriate wakeup setting).
> > >
> > > But then before the PM core invokes the ->suspend callback of A, the
> > > system sleep transition is cancelled. So the PM core goes through the
> > > device tree from parents to children, invoking the ->resume callback for
> > > all the devices whose ->suspend callback was called earlier. Thus, A's
> > > ->resume is skipped because A's ->suspend wasn't called, but B's
> > > ->resume callback _is_ invoked. This callback fails, because it can't
> > > resume B while A is still in runtime suspend.
> > >
> > > The same problem arises if A isn't a parent of B but there is a PM
> > > dependency from B to A.
> > >
> > > It's been so long since I worked on the system suspend code that I don't
> > > remember how we decided to handle this scenario.
> > >
> >
> > Alan, Rafael,
> >
> > What are your thoughts on how we should handle this.
>
> I'm not really sure what you mean by "this": the scenario described by
> Alan or something else?
>
> I was pulled into the thread in the middle of it and I don't know the
> full context.

Thanks for looking into this. The issue Ryan reported is what Alan
described: A system suspend was interrupted for device A and B that are
already in runtime suspend. The roll back transition skipped A ->resume.
B's ->resume was called and received an error message because A was
still in runtime suspend.

For dwc3 however, it resumes B anyway regardless of the error. Because
of the dependency of A, it runs into problems later. This can be fixed
in dwc3 to check for the error, but..

>
> > Should the fix be at the PM core? Sounds like the PM core needs to check
> > more than whether the ->suspend callback was called earlier to determine
> > whether to skip ->resume.
>
> But the core doesn't know what happened in the ->suspend callback in
> the first place, so how can it know what's the right thing to do?

..shouldn't the PM core know that A was runtime suspended to not skip
->resume? (sorry I'm not an expert in the PM core, genuine question
here).

Thanks,
Thinh