Touchpad doesn't work in 4.17 or later

[Patrik Kullman]

Using the builds at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ I can successfully install and run 4.16.17 (Linux version 4.16.17-041617-generic (kernel@tangerine) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-23ubuntu2)) #201806201630 SMP Wed Jun 20 20:32:55 UTC 2018) but not 4.17.2 or 4.18-rc1.

In the later ones, the touchpad does not work after boot and rebooting stalls:

Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366528] INFO: task systemd-udevd:309 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366540] Not tainted 4.17.2-041702-generic #201806160433
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366545] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366551] systemd-udevd D 0 309 273 0x80000104
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366558] Call Trace:
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366576] __schedule+0x291/0x870
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366582] ? __switch_to_asm+0x34/0x70
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366587] ? __switch_to_asm+0x40/0x70
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366596] ? get_work_pool+0x40/0x40
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366602] schedule+0x2c/0x80
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366609] schedule_timeout+0x1db/0x360
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366615] ? __schedule+0x299/0x870
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366623] ? get_work_pool+0x40/0x40
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366629] wait_for_completion+0xba/0x140
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366637] ? wake_up_q+0x80/0x80
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366645] flush_work+0x127/0x1e0
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366652] ? worker_detach_from_pool+0xa0/0xa0
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366661] __cancel_work_timer+0x131/0x1b0
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366669] cancel_delayed_work_sync+0x13/0x20
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366676] power_supply_unregister+0x37/0xb0
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366682] devm_power_supply_release+0x11/0x20
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366692] release_nodes+0x110/0x1f0
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366701] devres_release_group+0x7c/0xb0
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366718] wacom_remove+0xce/0x120 [wacom]
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366733] hid_device_remove+0x55/0xb0 [hid]
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366741] device_release_driver_internal+0x15b/0x220
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366751] ? __hid_bus_driver_added+0x40/0x40 [hid]
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366760] ? hid_destroy_device+0x60/0x60 [hid]
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366766] device_release_driver+0x12/0x20
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366771] device_reprobe+0x30/0x50
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366782] __hid_bus_reprobe_drivers+0x4b/0x60 [hid]
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366793] bus_for_each_dev+0x74/0xb0
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366803] __hid_bus_driver_added+0x2c/0x40 [hid]
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Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366859] ? __vunmap+0x81/0xb0
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366867] ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366874] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xb8/0x1c0
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366883] ? do_init_module+0x27/0x209
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366892] do_init_module+0x5f/0x209
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366900] load_module+0x1987/0x1f10
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366913] __do_sys_finit_module+0xfc/0x120
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366919] ? __do_sys_finit_module+0xfc/0x120
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366929] __x64_sys_finit_module+0x1a/0x20
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366936] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x120
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366942] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366948] RIP: 0033:0x7f03e2729839
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366952] RSP: 002b:00007ffde9a0e588 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000139
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366959] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000561aff969a00 RCX: 00007f03e2729839
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366963] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007f03e24080e5 RDI: 0000000000000007
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366967] RBP: 00007f03e24080e5 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007ffde9a0e6a0
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366970] R10: 0000000000000007 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366974] R13: 0000561aff95d850 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000561aff969a00
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366987] INFO: task kworker/u8:3:394 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.366996] Not tainted 4.17.2-041702-generic #201806160433
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367000] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367006] kworker/u8:3 D 0 394 2 0x80000000
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367021] Workqueue: events_power_efficient power_supply_deferred_register_work
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367024] Call Trace:
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367034] __schedule+0x291/0x870
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367040] ? __switch_to_asm+0x40/0x70
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367048] schedule+0x2c/0x80
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367056] schedule_preempt_disabled+0xe/0x10
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367063] __mutex_lock.isra.4+0x18c/0x4d0
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367069] ? __switch_to_asm+0x34/0x70
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367074] ? __switch_to_asm+0x34/0x70
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367083] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x13/0x20
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367090] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x13/0x20
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367097] mutex_lock+0x2f/0x40
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367104] power_supply_deferred_register_work+0x2b/0x50
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367112] process_one_work+0x1de/0x3e0
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367119] worker_thread+0x32/0x410
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367126] kthread+0x121/0x140
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367132] ? process_one_work+0x3e0/0x3e0
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367138] ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
Jun 18 15:42:50 pkxps kernel: [ 242.367144] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
Jun 18 15:43:18 pkxps kernel: [ 269.976729] rfkill: input handler enabled

[Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot)]

This change was made by a bot.

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v4.18 kernel[0].

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug as "Confirmed".

Thanks in advance.

[0] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.18-rc2

[Patrik Kullman (nomego)]

Not sure if you get these updates without a comment but I did try 4.18-rc2 and bug is still present.

Anything else I can do ?

[Kai-Heng Feng (kaihengfeng)]

Can you do a kernel bisection?

First, find the last good -rc kernel and the first bad -rc kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

Then,
$ sudo apt build-dep linux
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
$ cd linux
$ git bisect start
$ git bisect good $(the good version you found)
$ git bisect bad $(the bad version found)
$ make localmodconfig
$ make -j`nproc` deb-pkg
Install the newly built kernel, then reboot with it.
If the issue still happens,
$ git bisect bad
Otherwise,
$ git bisect good
Repeat to "make -j`nproc` deb-pkg" until you find the commit that causes the regression.

[Patrik Kullman (nomego)]

Amazingly enough these issues seem resolved in 4.18-rc3! So 4.17 through 4.18-rc2 are affected, likely 4.17-rc? too.
Only weirdness in dmesg now is this, but I'm not sure of the implications:

[ 18.148559] pci_bus 0000:02: Allocating resources
[ 18.148627] pcieport 0000:02:01.0: bridge window [io 0x1000-0x0fff] to [bus 04-38] add_size 1000
[ 18.148650] pcieport 0000:02:02.0: bridge window [io 0x1000-0x0fff] to [bus 39] add_size 1000
[ 18.148658] pcieport 0000:02:02.0: bridge window [mem 0x00100000-0x000fffff 64bit pref] to [bus 39] add_size 200000 add_align 100000
[ 18.148681] pcieport 0000:01:00.0: bridge window [io 0x1000-0x0fff] to [bus 02-39] add_size 2000
[ 18.148693] pcieport 0000:01:00.0: BAR 13: no space for [io size 0x2000]
[ 18.148698] pcieport 0000:01:00.0: BAR 13: failed to assign [io size 0x2000]
[ 18.148707] pcieport 0000:01:00.0: BAR 13: no space for [io size 0x2000]
[ 18.148711] pcieport 0000:01:00.0: BAR 13: failed to assign [io size 0x2000]
[ 18.148731] pcieport 0000:02:02.0: BAR 15: no space for [mem size 0x00200000 64bit pref]
[ 18.148736] pcieport 0000:02:02.0: BAR 15: failed to assign [mem size 0x00200000 64bit pref]
[ 18.148742] pcieport 0000:02:01.0: BAR 13: no space for [io size 0x1000]
[ 18.148746] pcieport 0000:02:01.0: BAR 13: failed to assign [io size 0x1000]
[ 18.148752] pcieport 0000:02:02.0: BAR 13: no space for [io size 0x1000]
[ 18.148756] pcieport 0000:02:02.0: BAR 13: failed to assign [io size 0x1000]
[ 18.148767] pcieport 0000:02:02.0: BAR 15: no space for [mem size 0x00200000 64bit pref]
[ 18.148772] pcieport 0000:02:02.0: BAR 15: failed to assign [mem size 0x00200000 64bit pref]
[ 18.148777] pcieport 0000:02:02.0: BAR 13: no space for [io size 0x1000]
[ 18.148782] pcieport 0000:02:02.0: BAR 13: failed to assign [io size 0x1000]
[ 18.148787] pcieport 0000:02:01.0: BAR 13: no space for [io size 0x1000]
[ 18.148792] pcieport 0000:02:01.0: BAR 13: failed to assign [io size 0x1000]
[ 22.647320] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: AER: Corrected error received: 0000:00:1c.0
[ 22.647337] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, (Receiver ID)
[ 22.647355] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: device [8086:9d10] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
[ 22.647386] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: [ 0] Receiver Error (First)
[ 22.721810] pci_raw_set_power_state: 31 callbacks suppressed
[ 22.721812] pcieport 0000:02:00.0: Refused to change power state, currently in D3
[ 22.723448] pci_bus 0000:03: busn_res: [bus 03] is released
[ 22.723537] pci_bus 0000:04: busn_res: [bus 04-38] is released
[ 22.723601] pci_bus 0000:39: busn_res: [bus 39] is released
[ 22.724655] pci_bus 0000:02: busn_res: [bus 02-39] is released

[Patrik Kullman (nomego)]

Actually it didn't get solved with 4.18-rc3, but rather works on some boots.
Tried rc4 now and problem remains, I just haven't rebooted enough.

Hard to verify with a bisect as well.

[Patrik Kullman (nomego)]

Ok uploaded different dmesgs for the same kernel when the touchpad is working and not. (Two examples of when it's working)
When it's not working, the computer won't reboot/halt either.

Took me about 10-12 reboots to get one boot when it's working.

[Patrik Kullman (nomego)]

I haven't experienced this for a while now (since 4.19-rc1?), can be closed.