linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: xhci-mtk: fixup mouse wakeup failure during system suspend

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Date:	Tue, 03 May 2016 12:33:31 +0300
From:	Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@...ux.intel.com>
To:	chunfeng yun <chunfeng.yun@...iatek.com>
Cc:	Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...el.com>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org,
	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: xhci-mtk: fixup mouse wakeup failure during system suspend


Hi,

chunfeng yun <chunfeng.yun@...iatek.com> writes:
>> chunfeng yun <chunfeng.yun@...iatek.com> writes:
>> > On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 10:04 +0800, Chunfeng Yun wrote:
>> >> Click mouse after xhci suspend completion but before system suspend
>> >> completion, system will not be waken up by mouse if the duration of
>> >> them is larger than 20ms which is the device UFP's resume signaling
>> 
>> what is "them" here ? The duration of what is longer than 20ms ?
> They are "xhci suspend completion" and "system suspend completion";
>
> It's time duration

okay. So if xhci suspend takes longer than 20ms your SPM doesn't see a
wakeup ?

>> >> lasted. Another reason is that the SPM is not enabled before system
>> 
>> what's SPM ?
> It is System Power Management which is powered off when system is
> running in normal mode, and is powered on when system enters suspend
> mode. It is used to wakeup system when some wakeup sources, such as
> bluetooth or powerkey etc, tigger wakeup event.

okay, thanks

>> >> suspend compeltion, this causes SPM also not notice the resume signal.
>>            ^^^^^^^^^^
>>            completion
>> 
>> >> So in order to reduce the duration less than 20ms, make use of
>> >> syscore's suspend/resume interface.
>> 
>> no, this is the wrong approach
> But it seems only one workable approach from software side

I wouldn't say that. It seems to me SPM should be enabled earlier.

>> >> Because the syscore runs on irq disabled context, and xhci's
>> >> suspend/resume calls some sleeping functions, enable local irq
>> >> and then disable it during suspend/resume. This may be not a problem,
>> >> since only boot CPU is runing.
>> 
>> another problem :) calling local_irq_{enable,disable}() is an indication
>> that something's wrong.
> Oh!
>
> BTW: There will be warning logs if they are not called.

yeah, I got that :-) But it's still wrong to use
local_irq_{enable,disable}() the way you're using them :-)

-- 
balbi

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