virtualbox+usb 3.0 breaks boot, -28 kernel works

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This may be due to the following commit:
6ad3777 xhci: Cleanup only when releasing primary hcd

I built a test kernel with this commit reverted. It can be downloaded from:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1604058/

Can you test this kernel and see if it resolves this bug?

Note that you need to install both the linux-image and linux-image-extra .deb packages.

confirming your kernel works,
fwiw did you guys release it in between?

ah, no release, I see, it just replaced the stock kernel
anyways, this patched(reverted) kernel works

just for testing docs - you need a vbox 5.1 Ubuntu xenial VM WITH usb3.0 (xhci)
to reproduce this (boot will "freeze")

thank you
Lubos

Hello Joseph,

your kernel resolves this bug.

I'v installed them in a ubuntu 16.04 guest running in a 5.1.0 virtualbox on a windows 7 host.

The ubuntu guest, configured to use usb 3.0 xhci controller, now boots normally. The guest can access usb memory sticks normally.

Kind regards,
Martin

This bug also affected me, and the jsalisbury kernel fixed the problem.

This bug may be fixed by the following commit, which is already commited to Xenial master-next:
47e41bd usb: xhci-plat: properly handle probe deferral for devm_clk_get()

I built a Xenial master-next kernel which can be downloaded from:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1604058/

Can you test this kernel and see if it resolves this bug?

Note that you need to install both the linux-image and linux-image-extra .deb packages.

Joseph - the -32 kernel you built still suffers the problem

fwiw - I cannot test more kernels, my time I can spend (as QA) on this bug is gone, please setup a vbox VM and test your builds (it's probably faster than updating this bug)

xing the fingers (fwiw a link to code review/diff might spark more interest in me(I don't know how/where to lookup your changes), QA/QE is really something I am not good at, but then I can grok code ;) )
L

Yes, the 4.4.0-32.51~lp1604058masterNext kernel doesn't boot for me either.

As previously noted, mainline commit 27a41a83ec54 ("xhci: Cleanup only when releasing primary hcd") causes this boot hang. I can reproduce the problem with VirtualBox 5.1.x, booting any kernel version which includes that commit (Xenial, Yakkety, or mainline v4.7-rc1).

I think I have identified the specific problem in that commit and have a constructed a test patch (attached for reference). This appears to fix the VirtualBox boot hang but I'd like some confirmation that it results in otherwise normal USB3.0 functionality. Here's a Xenial test kernel with the test patch applied:

    http://people.canonical.com/~kamal/lp1604058/

Affected users, please advise whether this fixes the boot hang in your VirtualBox environment, and whether your USB3.0 behavior is back to normal.

Hi,

I tested your test kernels and everything is working: no boot hang and USB 3.0 hdds are working with the expected speed.

@Matthias, thanks for the positive test result.

The patch fixing this is now scheduled for inclusion in the next Ubuntu Xenial kernel (a note will be posted here at that time). The patch has also been submitted to mainline Linux: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/1/353

Somehow, since today I'm experiencing the following error messages while booting, still using your modified kernel:

...
[ 28.957096] xhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: Command completion event does not match command
...
[ 49.121191] xhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: Error while assigning device slot ID
[ 49.121201] xhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: Max number of devices this xHCI host supports is 32.
[ 49.121205] usb usb1-port1: couldn't allocate usb_device
...

I don't have any clue where it comes from so suddenly.

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-xenial' to 'verification-done-xenial'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

Great, the kernel from -proposed is working as expected. All good.

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-36.55

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