Re: Dell Inspiron 5558/0VNM2T and suspend/resume problem with r8169

[Diego Viola]

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Diego Viola <diego.viola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Diego Viola <diego.viola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Diego Viola <diego.viola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> My machine (a Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop) fails to resume from suspend
>>> unless I rmmod r8169 first.
>>>
>>> Another workaround is to do this before suspend:
>>>
>>> echo 0 > /sys/power/pm_async
>>>
>>> I've been reproducing the freeze like this:
>>>
>>> $ i3lock && systemctl suspend
>>>
>>> I would have to repeat this at least 5 times for the freeze to occur,
>>> but it seems to be easily reproducible.
>>>
>>> If I don't invoke i3lock, I cannot get the freeze to happen, but it
>>> seems to happen with other lockers also.
>>>
>>> I have tried Alt+SysRq+r and tried to switch to another TTY but the
>>> machine is always unresponsive, which indicates that it's a kernel
>>> panic.
>>>
>>> I have had a similar issue to this about a year ago with the jme
>>> driver and this was the fix:
>>>
>>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/jme.c?id=ee50c130c82175eaa0820c96b6d3763928af2241
>>>
>>> I haven't tried getting a kernel trace yet, but all seems to indicate
>>> the problem is caused by r8169, at least til now.
>>>
>>> Any ideas, please?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Diego
>>
>> Sorry, I forgot to mention, I'm on Arch Linux (x86_64), kernel 4.9.11-1-ARCH.
>>
>> Diego
>
> This is still a problem with Linux 4.10.1.
>
> Diego

I got this trace in the journal while suspending, not sure if it's
related to this problem:

Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: PM: Preparing system for sleep (mem)
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: Freezing user space processes ...
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: usb 2-6: new full-speed USB device
number 34 using xhci_hcd
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#28
UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#28 Sense Key :
0x6 [current]
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#28 ASC=0x28 ASCQ=0x0
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#28 CDB:
opcode=0x28 28 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 02 00
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 16
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: (elapsed 1.452 seconds) done.
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: Freezing remaining freezable tasks ...
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2134 at
drivers/base/firmware_class.c:1200 _request_firmware+0x2da/0xa70
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: Modules linked in: fuse nls_iso8859_1
nls_cp437 vfat fat snd_hda_codec_hdmi rtsx_usb_ms memstick
rtsx_usb_sdmmc dell_led snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic
dell_laptop intel_rapl x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp
kvm_int
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  bluetooth cfg80211 aesni_intel
aes_x86_64 crypto_simd glue_helper cryptd evdev intel_cstate
input_leds intel_rapl_perf mac_hid i915 pcspkr snd snd_soc_sst_acpi
thermal snd_soc_sst_match wmi battery ac97_bus soundcore fjes
drm_kms_helper vide
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: CPU: 3 PID: 2134 Comm: kworker/3:5 Not
tainted 4.10.1-ARCH #1
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: Hardware name: Dell Inc. Inspiron
5558/0VNM2T, BIOS A14 11/22/2016
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event [usbcore]
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: Call Trace:
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  dump_stack+0x63/0x83
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  __warn+0xcb/0xf0
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  _request_firmware+0x2da/0xa70
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  request_firmware+0x37/0x50
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  ath3k_load_patch+0xc3/0x1e0 [ath3k]
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  ath3k_probe+0x76/0x4ac [ath3k]
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  ? __pm_runtime_set_status+0x1c0/0x2a0
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  usb_probe_interface+0x159/0x2d0 [usbcore]
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  driver_probe_device+0x2bb/0x460
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  __device_attach_driver+0x8c/0x100
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  ? __driver_attach+0xf0/0xf0
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  bus_for_each_drv+0x67/0xb0
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  __device_attach+0xdd/0x160
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  device_initial_probe+0x13/0x20
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  bus_probe_device+0x92/0xa0
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  device_add+0x393/0x670
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  usb_set_configuration+0x5f9/0x910 [usbcore]
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  generic_probe+0x2e/0x80 [usbcore]
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  usb_probe_device+0x2e/0x70 [usbcore]
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  driver_probe_device+0x2bb/0x460
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  __device_attach_driver+0x8c/0x100
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  ? __driver_attach+0xf0/0xf0
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  bus_for_each_drv+0x67/0xb0
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  __device_attach+0xdd/0x160
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  device_initial_probe+0x13/0x20
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  bus_probe_device+0x92/0xa0
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  device_add+0x393/0x670
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  usb_new_device+0x1c9/0x3f0 [usbcore]
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  hub_event+0xb95/0x1520 [usbcore]
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  process_one_work+0x1e5/0x470
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  worker_thread+0x48/0x4e0
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  kthread+0x101/0x140
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  ? process_one_work+0x470/0x470
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  ? kthread_create_on_node+0x60/0x60
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel:  ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: ---[ end trace 40ac42fc353e2506 ]---
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: usb 2-6: firmware:
ar3k/AthrBT_0x31010000.dfu will not be loaded
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: Bluetooth: Patch file not found
ar3k/AthrBT_0x31010000.dfu
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: Bluetooth: Loading patch file failed
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: ath3k: probe of 2-6:1.0 failed with error -11
Mar 03 12:05:05 myhost kernel: (elapsed 0.032 seconds) done.