A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

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On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 03:49:07AM +0000, Tang, Jianqiang wrote:
> Hi,
>  1) I met this issue one time just boot up our Linux Platform(Kernel3.10) 
> with XHCI driver, then kernel panic happen.
> 
>    And this issue reported once by other internal team.
> 
>    Nothing special of reproduce step and do not need special Hardware I think.
> 
>    Just random issue which will happen when meet the timing condition.
> 
>  2) This issue is introduced by this patch:
> 
>      
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=596d789a211d134dc5f94d1e5957248c204ef850
> 
>    which set all hub autosuspend delay to 0.

That patch was released in a kernel almost a full year ago, yet we have
never had a report of this happening before, so are you sure this patch
is the root cause?

>    This causes race condition during XHCI driver initialization,
> 
>     After USB2 hcd and USB2 root hub finish the initialization, USB2 root hub 
> is functional and auto suspend right now, hence trigger XHCI runtime suspend 
> flow;
> 
>     At the same time, XHCI driver continue to initialize the USB3 hcd and 
> assign to xhci->shared_hcd after finish the initialization;
>     
>     Since xhci_suspend() use the xhci->shared_hcd, so there is race condition 
> that when XHCI runtime suspend called, xhci->shared_hcd still NULL.
> 
>     I think this patch is a fix solution since before XHCI finish the whole 
> initialization, USB2 root hub triggered runtime suspend is mean less and do 
> not need to handle.

With this patch applied, does the crash go away?

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