Re: [PATCH] usb: chipidea: host: Disable port power only if previously enabled

From: Alan Stern
Date: Thu Dec 26 2019 - 14:46:23 EST


On Thu, 26 Dec 2019, Guenter Roeck wrote:

> On shutdown, ehci_power_off() is called unconditionally to power off
> each port, even if it was never called to power on the port.
> For chipidea, this results in a call to ehci_ci_portpower() with a request
> to power off ports even if the port was never powered on.
> This results in the following warning from the regulator code.

That's weird -- we should always power-on every port during hub
initialization.

It looks like there's a bug in hub.c:hub_activate(): The line under
HUB_INIT which calls hub_power_on() should call
usb_hub_set_port_power() instead. In fact, the comment near the start
of hub_power_on() is wrong. It says "Enable power on each port", but
in fact it only enables power for ports that had been powered-on
previously (i.e., the port's bit in hub->power_bits was set).
Apparently this got messed up in commit ad493e5e5805 ("usb: add usb
port auto power off mechanism").

Now, the chipidea driver may still need to be updated, because
ehci_turn_off_all_ports() will still be called during shutdown and it
will try to power-down all ports, even those which are already powered
down (for example, because the port is suspended).

Alan Stern