Kernel 2.6.26.5 -> 2.6.27.2 [USB REGRESSION] (USB -> D_STATE)

From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Kernel 2.6.26.5 -> 2.6.27.2 [USB REGRESSION] (USB -> D_STATE)
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:26:23 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0810190720210.26990@p34.internal.lan> (raw)

With kernel 2.6.27.2, any processes attempting to use USB hang and go into 
D-state, I have never had a problem like this before until 2.6.27.2 (I 
have not tried 2.6.27.1 or 2.6.27)

# lsusb -v
<hangs>

open("/dev/bus/usb", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=140, ...}) = 0
getdents(3, /* 7 entries */, 4096)      = 112
getdents(3, /* 0 entries */, 4096)      = 0
close(3)                                = 0
open("/dev/bus/usb/001", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=80, ...}) = 0
getdents(3, /* 4 entries */, 4096)      = 64
open("/dev/bus/usb/001/004", O_RDWR)    = 4
ioctl(4, USBDEVFS_CONNECTINFO

nut (for UPS) does not start.

nut       4078  0.0  0.0   1964   856 pts/8    D    07:09   0:00 /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -a belkin
root      4170  0.0  0.0   2204  1072 pts/8    D+   07:11   0:00 lsusb -v

Processes go directly to D-state with 2.6.27.2 for USB.

Booting back to 2.6.26.5 now to see if everything works again.

Back to 2.6.25.5, everything works fine:

# lsusb 
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2040:7501 Hauppauge 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 050d:1100 Belkin Components 
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0039 Microsoft Corp. IntelliMouse Optical
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Relevant configuration files and dmesg output:

http://home.comcast.net/~jpiszcz/2.6.25.5-usb-working.txt
http://home.comcast.net/~jpiszcz/2.6.27.2-usb-broken.txt

http://home.comcast.net/~jpiszcz/linux-2.6.25.5-config
http://home.comcast.net/~jpiszcz/linux-2.6.27.2-config