USB: add power/persist device attribute
This patch (as920) adds an extra level of protection to the
USB-Persist facility. Now it will apply by default only to hubs; for
all other devices the user must enable it explicitly by setting the
power/persist device attribute.
The disconnect_all_children() routine in hub.c has been removed and
its code placed inline. This is the way it was originally as part of
hub_pre_reset(); the revised usage in hub_reset_resume() is
sufficiently different that the code can no longer be shared.
Likewise, mark_children_for_reset() is now inline as part of
hub_reset_resume(). The end result looks much cleaner than before.
The sysfs interface is updated to add the new attribute file, and
there are corresponding documentation updates.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/persist.txt b/Documentation/usb/persist.txt
index 6dcd5f8..df54d64 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/persist.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/persist.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
- September 2, 2006 (Updated March 27, 2007)
+ September 2, 2006 (Updated May 29, 2007)
What is the problem?
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@
On many systems the USB host controllers will get reset after a
suspend-to-RAM. On almost all systems, no suspend current is
-available during suspend-to-disk (also known as swsusp). You can
-check the kernel log after resuming to see if either of these has
-happened; look for lines saying "root hub lost power or was reset".
+available during hibernation (also known as swsusp or suspend-to-disk).
+You can check the kernel log after resuming to see if either of these
+has happened; look for lines saying "root hub lost power or was reset".
In practice, people are forced to unmount any filesystems on a USB
device before suspending. If the root filesystem is on a USB device,
@@ -71,15 +71,16 @@
It works like this. If the kernel sees that a USB host controller is
not in the expected state during resume (i.e., if the controller was
reset or otherwise had lost power) then it applies a persistence check
-to each of the USB devices below that controller. It doesn't try to
-resume the device; that can't work once the power session is gone.
-Instead it issues a USB port reset and then re-enumerates the device.
-(This is exactly the same thing that happens whenever a USB device is
-reset.) If the re-enumeration shows that the device now attached to
-that port has the same descriptors as before, including the Vendor and
-Product IDs, then the kernel continues to use the same device
-structure. In effect, the kernel treats the device as though it had
-merely been reset instead of unplugged.
+to each of the USB devices below that controller for which the
+"persist" attribute is set. It doesn't try to resume the device; that
+can't work once the power session is gone. Instead it issues a USB
+port reset and then re-enumerates the device. (This is exactly the
+same thing that happens whenever a USB device is reset.) If the
+re-enumeration shows that the device now attached to that port has the
+same descriptors as before, including the Vendor and Product IDs, then
+the kernel continues to use the same device structure. In effect, the
+kernel treats the device as though it had merely been reset instead of
+unplugged.
If no device is now attached to the port, or if the descriptors are
different from what the kernel remembers, then the treatment is what
@@ -91,6 +92,17 @@
Filesystem mounts and memory mappings are unaffected, and the world is
now a good and happy place.
+Note that even when CONFIG_USB_PERSIST is set, the "persist" feature
+will be applied only to those devices for which it is enabled. You
+can enable the feature by doing (as root):
+
+ echo 1 >/sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/persist
+
+where the "..." should be filled in the with the device's ID. Disable
+the feature by writing 0 instead of 1. For hubs the feature is
+automatically and permanently enabled, so you only have to worry about
+setting it for devices where it really matters.
+
Is this the best solution?