Re: [xhci] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd

From: Sedat Dilek
Date: Fri Mar 05 2021 - 14:07:30 EST


On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 5:07 PM Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 01:09:16PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 4:53 PM Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> > > You can use usbmon on bus 4 to record the USB traffic. It may indicate
> > > why the resets occur.
> > >
> >
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > I followed the instructions in [1].
> >
> > root# modprobe -v usbmon
> >
> > root# ls /sys/kernel/debug/usb/usbmon
> > 0s 0u 1s 1t 1u 2s 2t 2u 3s 3t 3u 4s 4t 4u
> >
> > root# cat /sys/kernel/debug/usb/usbmon/4u > /tmp/usbmon-log_4u.txt
> > [ Ctrl+C ]
> >
> > I recorded 13:03 - 13:04 (one minute).
> >
> > So these xhci-resets should be included:
> >
> > [Fri Mar 5 13:03:07 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device
> > number 2 using xhci_hcd
> > [Fri Mar 5 13:03:07 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device
> > number 2 using xhci_hcd
> > [Fri Mar 5 13:03:27 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device
> > number 2 using xhci_hcd
> > [Fri Mar 5 13:03:27 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device
> > number 2 using xhci_hcd
> > [Fri Mar 5 13:03:27 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device
> > number 2 using xhci_hcd
> > [Fri Mar 5 13:03:28 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device
> > number 2 using xhci_hcd
> > [Fri Mar 5 13:03:28 2021] usb 4-1: reset SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device
> > number 2 using xhci_hcd
> >
> > The usbmon-log is attached.
> >
> > Unsure how to interpret the log - the kernel-doc says `raw data`.
> > How can I bring this into a human-readable format?
> > Can you give me a hand?
>
> Don't worry about trying to decode the output. To me it looks like the
> drive crashes and needs to be reset at times when the computer sends it
> an ATA command. (Not all ATA commands, but some.) You can prevent this
> by setting the following module parameter for the usb-storage driver:
>
> quirks=174c:55aa:t
>
> where the two numbers are the Vendor and Product IDs for the external
> drive, and the 't' is a quirks flag saying not to use any ATA commands.
> If this module parameter fixes the problem, we can add a permanent quirk
> setting to the kernel.
>

Thanks Alan.

I did:

[ /etc/modules-load.d/usb-storage.conf ]

# Add quirks for ATA commands for usb-storage devices connected to
ASMedia M1042 USB-3.0 controller
options usb-storage quirks=174c:55aa:t
- EOF -

It is:

/lib/modules/5.12.0-rc1-11-amd64-clang13-cfi/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko

But:

root# lsmod | grep usb | grep storage
usb_storage 90112 2 uas
scsi_mod 307200 6 sd_mod,usb_storage,uas,libata,sg,sr_mod
usbcore 385024 14
usbserial,xhci_hcd,ehci_pci,usbnet,usbhid,usb_storage,usb_wwan,uvcvideo,ehci_hcd,btusb,xhci_pci,cdc_ether,uas,option

I have not rebooted yet.

Interferences with PowerTop?

These xhci-resets happen every 10mins in a sequence of 4.

I have here a powertop.service (systemd) with passing --auto-tune option.
That was not a problem with previous Linux-kernels >= v5.12-rc1, so.

Alan, what do you think?

- Sedat -