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I maintain an SDK for USB2.0 and USB3.0 U3V machine vision cameras, and several of our customers have reported severe issues since upgrading from kernel 3.19.0-51 (Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS) to kernel 4.2.0-34 (Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS). I've received helpful advice from members of the libusb and linux-usb mailing lists on how to generate useful logs to help diagnose the issue, and have filed a bug to track this issue at: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115961 It seems that with kernels newer than the 3.19 series (I've tested on 4.2.0-34, and just repeated the tests on the latest 4.5.0 vanilla release), the cameras lock up, and cannot stream image data to the user application. I am able to resolve the issue on 4.2.0-34 by disabling USB power management by adding "usbcore.autosuspend=-1". On the 4.5 kernel, this "trick" doesn't work at all, and I have no way to get the cameras to stream data. I can do simple USB control requests to query things like register values and serial numbers, but that's it. Asynchronous bulk transfers never succeed. I am using the libusb library to communicate with the cameras, and have a fairly simple minimal working example to test the cameras, which: * Creates a default libusb context. * Enumerates available USB devices. * Filters out a select device based on the vendor/product ID values. * Opens the device, claims the bulk interface, and starts requesting frames of image data via async bulk transfer requests. There are select cases where the issue does not arise: Special Cases: * The issue does not occur when using USB2.0 cameras on a USB2.0 port, regardless of the kernel in use. * The issues occur only on Intel 8 Series and Intel 9 Series USB3.0 host controllers with 4.x kernels. * Intel 10 Series host controllers have not yet been tested. * The issues never occur on Fresco or Renesas host controllers, regardless of the kernel in use. * From visual inspection of lsusb output, the issue only appears to happen when the U1 and U2 options are available to the device. I would like to request assistance with diagnosing and resolving the issue, as it requires our customers to either not use Intel host controllers, or sticking to older kernel releases. Thank you for your time and assistance. ============================================================ Matthew Giassa, MASc, BASc, EIT Security and Embedded Systems Specialist linkedin: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/giassa e-mail: matt...@giassa.net website: www.giassa.net V1G"+Y -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
