Vampire Mice: How USB PM Impacts You

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Sarah Sharp

sarah.a.sharp@intel.com

Jan 25, 2013

2Software and Services Group (SSG)

System Software Division (SSD)

Mouse: flickr.com rick-in-rio

Mouse: flickr.com 27048731@N03

Mouse: flickr.com rick-in-rio

Mouse: flickr.com 27048731@N03

Agenda

• How USB PM works

• ...and how it doesn't work

• New USB 3.0 and 2.1 features

• New features in Intel systems

5 Software and Services Group (SSG)System Software Division (SSD)

How USBPower ManagementWorks

Lightbulb: flickr.com hozae

USB Power Management

• Three types of PM:• USB device suspend

• USB host suspend

• Link Power Management

Light bulb: flickr.com molotalk

USB Device Suspend

• Devices suspended when they're inactive

• Hubs suspend whenall children are suspended

• USB hosts suspend whenall ports are suspended

USB Device Suspend

• Implications of active USB host• Active DMA transfers

• Increased C state residency

• Increased power consumption

USB Device Suspend

• USB device suspend requirements• Device must support suspend

• Driver must support auto-suspend

• No active USB transfers

• Userspace can't poll

• Remote wakeup (optional)

How USBPower ManagementDoesn't Work

Broken light bulb: flickr.com ginsnob

USB Device Suspend Issues

• Missing driver auto-suspend support

• Impossible to get to idle

• Userspace polls devices

Are we there yet?

Is an SD card inserted yet?

SD card reader: flickr.com osde-info

• Many USB devices are broken• Disconnect on resume

• Unsafe suspend behavior

• No remote wakeups

• Event loss during resume

• Firmware updates may help• Device descriptors often

unchanged

Mouse: flickr.com declanjewell

• Different systems producedifferent behavior• Electrical issues?

• Host hardware bugs?

• Powered USB hubs?

• Device driver bugs?

dusty computer: flickr.com johnjack

• What to do about broken devices?• Huge blacklist in kernel

• Make it userspace's problem!• USB device suspend off by default

• Userspace must turn it on

• # echo auto >/sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/control

• Powertop can turn it on

Blame: flickr.com iandesign

Turning on USB PM

• Powertop auto-suspend enabling doesn't persist across• Device unplug

• Reboot

• Solution: create a udev rule

• github.com/sarahsharp/usb-pm-tools

Boot: flickr.com jamiecat

USB Device Suspend

Takeaway:

All your USB devicesmust be suspendedto get good platformpower management.

1. Test your devices.

2. Enable auto-suspend

USBLink Power Management

Challenges withUSB device suspend

• Users must turn it on

• Requires driver modification

• Timeout is course-grained

• Devices can't refuse suspend

Blame: flickr.com iandesign

USB 3.0Link Power Management

• USB 3.0 Link PM• Link PM states: U1 and U2

• Idea:• Host & hubs track idleness

• OS sets timeout once

• No driver modification

• Devices can refuse U1/U2

USB 3.0Link Power Management

• Some USB 3.0 devices don't do Link PM

• How to tell?

# lsusb -v -d 1d6b:0003 | grep "Port [0-9]*"

Hub Port Status:

Port 1: 0000.02a0 5Gbps power Rx.Detect

Port 2: 0000.0243 5Gbps power U2 enable connect

USB 2.1 Link PM

• New 'L1' low power state

• No changes to USB 2.0 hubs

• Only for devices on roothub• Good for integrated devices

New IntelUSB PM Features

Current and FutureIntel Products

• Current gen:• CPU: Ivy Bridge

• Chipset: Panther Point

• Next gen:• CPU: Haswell

• Chipsets: Lynx Point

Panther: flickr.com tim_ellisLynx: flickr.com keithmwilliams

Intel USB PMImprovements

• Panther Point• Finally has xHCI host controller!

• Only four ports under xHCI

• Supports USB 3.0 Link PM

• Lynx Point• All ports under xHCI

• Supports USB 3.0 andUSB 2.1 Link PM

Panther: flickr.com tim_ellisLynx: flickr.com keithmwilliams

Intel Lynx PointUSB PM Improvements

• Motivation• Unused internal ports

• Unused internal USB devices

internal laptop: flickr novakreofinger print scanner: flickr mikedent

Intel Lynx PointUSB PM Improvements

• Idea:• Completely power off port

• Lose USB events:• Disconnect

• Connect

• Remote wakeup events

internal laptop: flickr novakreofinger print scanner: flickr mikedent

Summary

www.threadless.com/product/2168/USB_Port

Summary

• USB device suspend is often broken

• Try powertop

• Check out github.com/sarahsharp/usb-pm-tools

• Link PM improvements

• New Intel USB PM features

• Thanks!

Questions?

sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com

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