On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> wrote:
>
> That's easy:
>
> - Take any usbnet device supporting remote wakeup (and of course with a
>   minidriver supporting it as well),
> - enable autosuspend,
> - ip link set dev ethX/usbX/wwanX up
>
> And watch ksoftirqd/X use 100% of one of your CPU cores.
>
> I'd very much like to hear the details if you are unable to reproduce
> the bug using this simple test.

I have no such kind of devices, and can't reproduce the problem with
a cdc-ether gadget built by one omap3 beagleboard.

>> Once usbnet_terminate_urbs and netif_device_attach() are
>> completed, who will schedule tasklet to trigger rx_alloc_submit?
>
> That's a good question.  It sure would be nice if that never happened
> without waking the device first.  But there are just too many call sites
> for me to follow:

To be honest, your patch is correct, and I am just curious about
the reason why tasklet is scheduled after the device is suspended.

>
> bjorn@nemi:/usr/local/src/git/linux$ grep tasklet_schedule 
> drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
>                 tasklet_schedule(&dev->bh);
>  * but tasklet_schedule() doesn't.  hope the failure is rare.
>                         tasklet_schedule (&dev->bh);
>         tasklet_schedule(&dev->bh);
>                 tasklet_schedule(&dev->bh);
>         tasklet_schedule (&dev->bh);
>                         tasklet_schedule (&dev->bh);
>                                 tasklet_schedule (&dev->bh);
>         tasklet_schedule (&dev->bh);
>                                 tasklet_schedule (&dev->bh);
>                         tasklet_schedule (&dev->bh);

Could you add some debug info inside the caller to see which one
cause the tasklet to be scheduled?


Thanks,
--
Ming Lei
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