On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 07:12:44AM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Linus,
> 
> >> Yes 81f95076281f is to blame.. After reverting it all is fine again.
> >> 
> >> 15 resume cycles on the one laptop , 10 on the other without to hit the
> >> trace.
> > 
> > Yeah, I think that disable/enable_firmware in the suspend/resume path
> > is basically just completely random code. There  is nothing that
> > serializes with anything else, and it has no actual basis for saying
> > "I am now disabled/enabled" except for some entirely random time of
> > whenever the suspend/resume callbacks happen.
> > 
> > I'm going to revert it.
> > 
> > I wonder why 4.13 seemed to work for me. Or maybe it didn't, and I
> > just didn't notice, because I didn't use bluetooth and I wasn't
> > traveling. I test my laptop every release, but I don't necessarily
> > always _use_ it.
> 
> we have a bug report that might go into the similar direction. So the
> problem is that modern Bluetooth controller require full firmware
> loading (not just ROM patching) and if the controller has the firmware
> somehow already loaded, but then looses power and needs a reload, then
> it is not cached (since it was never requested in the first place).
> 
> Of course if the reload triggers during resume when not file system is
> available, it can not request the firmware. That will just fail and
> thus you might see this issue. We have a few RFC patches on the
> mailing list that I have to review. It is however not that easy all
> the time to find the right firmware file (at least not for Intel
> hardware) since the boot loader provides different information than
> the fully operational firmware. So I need to make sure that request
> the right firmware (if we do not need it initially) so that it gets
> cached.

To confirm, reverting this fixes the problem I was seeing in 4.13.  I've
queued it up for the next 4.13-stable release as well.

thanks,

greg k-h

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