Re: USB: on suspend to ram/disk all usb devices are replugged

Maxim
2007-03-27T17:54:57Z

On Tuesday 27 March 2007 19:15:14 Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I noticed that after suspend/resume cycle all my usb devices are unplugged/replugged by uhci driver.
> > While it is not that big problem to me, that can be a real problem if a device is a flash card with mounted
> > file-system, because disappeared device will cause file-system corruption.
> >
> > I found why this happens.
> >
> > drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c:uhci_check_and_reset_hc checks that the BIOS didn't play with USB controller, and on my system
> > with or without a USB Legacy support turned on in the BIOS, the BIOS does meddle with USB controller,
> >
> > But I suggest adding a option that will allow the user to bypass that check, because for example on my system USB works perfectly
> > if I disable the checks that this function does (but I agree that those checks are very valuable, since I almost sure that on many systems USB
> > won't work without resetting the USB controller.)
>
> No. It just isn't safe to do that. If the BIOS has done something to the
> controller then it may very well have reset the attached devices too. Or
> changed their addresses, or done something else equally drastic.

I agree, I was only saying a option to override this check, for users who know that this is not the case.

>
> > Secondary, this function checks for UHCI_USBCMD_CONFIGURE, that is not set on resume,
> > According to both UHCI and ICH8 documentation this is software only bit, but I didn't find any place in kernel where it is set,
> > (But such place exist, because reading from usb IO ports confirm that it is set during normal work, I will try to find it)
>
> It is set in drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c:start_rh().
Thanks a lot, it would take a lot of time to find that out to me,
>
> > Disabling both check for UHCI_USBLEGSUP and UHCI_USBCMD_CONFIGURE makes all usb devices (I have mouse,keyborad, and joystick)
> > work fine on resume from ram without this "virtual" replugging.
>
> The UHCI specification is rather sparse in many respects, and it doesn't
> say what the host firmware should or should not do during a resume. So
> the driver has to be very conservative and assume that any indication of a
> change means that the entire controller must be reset.
>
> > Suspend to disk still causes "virtual replugging" and I think that controller is reset and will unplug/replug devices anyway
> > Resolving this problem is very difficult. Maybe it possible to check on unplugging event that this caused by suspend if the same device is
> > replugged then don't remove/reinstall driver, but this is very difficult to implement properly,
> > Maybe just refuse to suspend if some valuable device is connected (sorry if it is done this way already)
>
> Long ago I posted a patch that would take care of all this. Not just for
> UHCI, but for any USB controller. Maybe I should dig it out, update it,
> and submit it.
This sounds great, where is it ? .... :-)
This will improve linux suspend to ram/disk a lot.
>
> > Also I want to note that I didn't yet checked any EHCI devices, because I don't have any (I am going to buy a usb stick soon)
> > But I feel that the above will be true for ehci too....
>
> EHCI controllers tend to be better behaved than UHCI controllers, perhaps
> because the specification is much more careful to explain what must be
> done. In many cases a computer can resume from suspend-to-RAM with all
> the EHCI-connected devices still intact.
Big thanks, maybe usb stick I am going to buy will work with suspend to ram....
>
> Alan Stern
>
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Hi,

Thanks a lot for so quick reply,
I want to note to myself that making a assumptions generally a bad idea,
Until now I thought that linux always unplugs/re plugs usb devices on suspend/resume,
that this is normal, but it looks that linux is better... :-)

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky