linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: btusb: Restore QCA Rome suspend/resume fix with a "rewritten" version

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Date:   Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:23:55 -0800
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc:     Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
        Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>,
        Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Leif Liddy <leif.linux@...il.com>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>,
        Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>,
        matadeen@....qualcomm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: btusb: Restore QCA Rome suspend/resume fix
 with a "rewritten" version

On 02/15/2018 06:27 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 12:25:55PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> On 13-02-18 03:24, Brian Norris wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 10:44:16AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> Commit 7d06d5895c15 ("Revert "Bluetooth: btusb: fix QCA...suspend/resume"")
>>>> removed the setting of the BTUSB_RESET_RESUME quirk for QCA Rome devices,
>>>> instead favoring adding USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME quirks in usb/core/quirks.c.
>>>>
>>>> This was done because the DIY BTUSB_RESET_RESUME reset-resume handling
>>>> has several issues (see the original commit message). An added advantage
>>>> of moving over to the USB-core reset-resume handling is that it also
>>>> disables autosuspend for these devices, which is similarly broken on these.
>>>
>>> Wait, is autosuspend actually broken for all QCA Rome chipsets? I don't
>>> think so -- I'm using one now.
>>
>> And have you manually enabled USB autosuspend for it, or are you
>> running something which might have done so, e.g. powertop --auto-tune ?
>>
>> Because if you did not do that then you're already not using autosuspend
>> for your QCA devices and this patch will change nothing.
> 
> I use a set of udev rules that manually whitelist devices for
> autosuspend. You can see it here:
> 
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/43728a93f6de137006c6b92fbb2a7cc4f353c9bf/power_manager/udev/gen_autosuspend_rules.py#83
> 
> You'll find at least one Rome chip in there.
> 
>>> Thus, this is a poor solution, which
>>> negatively affects my systems. However, I see that this patch was
>>> applied regardless...
>>
>> Note that there already is a quirk to handle broken suspend/resume
>> behavior on ALL QCA devices in older kernels. Also note that the
> 
> Yes, and the quirk was broken, and I made sure it got reverted when it
> broke my devices ;)
> 
>> patches series which this commit builds on top of was already
>> setting USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME for some devices in
>> usb/core/quirks.c.
>>
>> All my commit does is instead of duplicating all the QCA USB-ids in
>> usb/core/quirks.c, move the setting of USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME
>> to btusb.c so that we don't need to duplicate the USB-id tables.
> 
> I was slightly more OK with marking specific IDs as broken, because
> those IDs didn't happen to be ones that I knew were currently working.
> Now you're breaking my systems again. But this time, it's more subtle
> because bluetooth will still work, but we just suck more power leaving
> our USB port active all the time.
> 
>> The result of the combination of these patches is that the custom
>> DIY reset on resume handling btusb.c was doing is now replaced
>> by setting the standard USB-core USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME quirk.
>>
>> As a (desirable) side effect this also disables USB autosuspend
>> for QCA devices since the USB-core does not allow USB autosuspend
>> on devices with the USB_QUIRK_RESET_RESUME quirk. Testing has shown
>> this to be necessary on at least some QCA devices and given that
>> these devices tend to loose there firmware on a suspend, it seems
>> sensible to not allow autosuspend on them.
> 
> But you're not accurately targeting the "some". AFAICT, you're wasting
> power on my system.
> 
>>> What justifications was found for this anyway? AIUI, this is a platform
>>> bug, and not entirely a chipset bug.
>>
>> No this is believed to be a chipset issue, hence also the quirk in
>> older kernels to always reset these devices after a normal suspend/resume.
> 
> I have Qualcomm telling me this is a platform issue. I haven't noticed
> problems with autosuspend nor system suspend/resume on my platform. Do
> you have any more detail on this issue? Have you consulsted QCA folks?
> 
> Unfortunately, Greg is already queueing this patch up to all the -stable
> trees, so I'm going to have to revert it yet again in Chromium
> kernels...
> 

Grumble Grumble Grumble. I'll try to remember to revert this patch when I merge
v4.14.20 into chromeos-4.14. Please remind me if I forget for some reason.

I don't see it queued in v4.4.y - is that still coming ? Hope I won't miss it.

Guenter