Re: lockdep warning in urb.c:363 usb_submit_urb

Qais Yousef
2020-03-26T12:27:51Z

On 03/25/20 22:28, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 9:49 PM Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, Qais Yousef wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for all the hints Alan.
> > >
> > > I think I figured it out, the below patch seems to fix it for me. Looking
> > > at other drivers resume functions it seems we're missing the
> > > pm_runtime_disable()->set_active()->enable() dance. Doing that fixes the
> > > warning and the dev_err() in driver/base/power.
> >
> > Ah, yes. This should have been added years ago; guess I forgot. :-(
> >
> > > I don't see xhci-plat.c doing that, I wonder if it needs it too.
> > >
> > > I'm not well versed about the details and the rules here. So my fix could be
> > > a hack, though it does seem the right thing to do.
> > >
> > > I wonder why the power core doesn't handle this transparently..
> >
> > Initially, we didn't want the PM core to do this automatically because
> > we thought some devices might want to remain runtime-suspended
> > following a system resume, and only the device driver would know what
> > to do.
> >
> > Raphael, now that we have the direct_complete mechanism, can we revisit
> > this? Should the PM core automatically call pm_runtime_set_active() if
> > dev->power.direct_complete isn't set? Perhaps in device_resume_early()
> > prior to the pm_runtime_enable() call?
> >
> > It's possible we discussed this and decided against it at the time when
> > direct_complete was added, but if so I don't remember what was said.
>
> Me neither. :-)
>
> That said complexity has grown since then and there are the
> DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND and DPM_FLAG_LEAVE_SUSPENDED flags that can be
> used to control that behavior to some extent.
>
> Setting DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND alone, in particular, causes
> pm_runtime_set_active() to be called at the noirq stage of device
> resume either by the core or by bus types (e.g. PCI) etc.
>
> It looks like ohci-platform might use DPM_FLAG_SMART_SUSPEND, but I
> need to take a closer look at that (possibly later this week).

Okay I take it this was root caused correctly and now it's a question of which
is a better fix.

Thanks!

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Qais Yousef