pci_alloc_irq_vectors fails ENOSPC for XPS 13 9310

[Kalle Valo]

Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas at kernel.org> writes:

> [+cc Govind, author of 5697a564d369 ("ath11k: pci: add MSI config
> initialisation")]
>
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 08:49:51PM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> + linux-wireless, linux-pci, devin
>> 
>> Thomas Krause <thomaskrause at posteo.de> writes:
>> 
>> >> I had the same problem as well back in the days, for me enabling
>> >> CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP helped. If it helps for you also I wonder if we should
>> >> mention that in the ath11k warning above :)
>> >
>> > CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP did not do the trick. I noticed that the Wi-Fi card
>> > is behind a PCI bridge which is also disabled, could this be a
>> > problem?
>> >
>> > 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device a0b8 (rev 20) (prog-if 00
>> > [Normal decode])
>> > 	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 123
>> > 	Bus: primary=00, secondary=56, subordinate=56, sec-latency=0
>> > 	I/O behind bridge: [disabled]
>> > 	Memory behind bridge: 8c300000-8c3fffff [size=1M]
>> > 	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled]
>> > 	Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
>> > 	Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
>> > 	Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Dell Device 0991
>> > 	Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 3
>> > 	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>> > 	Capabilities: [220] Access Control Services
>> > 	Capabilities: [150] Precision Time Measurement
>> > 	Capabilities: [200] L1 PM Substates
>> > 	Capabilities: [a00] Downstream Port Containment
>> > 	Kernel driver in use: pcieport
>> 
>> I don't know enough about PCI to say if the bridge is a problem or not.
>
> I don't think the bridge is an issue here.  AFAICT the bridge's I/O
> and prefetchable memory windows are disabled, but the non-prefetchable
> window *is* enabled and contains the space consumed by the ath11k
> device:
>
>   00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device a0b8 (rev 20)
> 	Bus: primary=00, secondary=56, subordinate=56, sec-latency=0
> 	Memory behind bridge: 8c300000-8c3fffff [size=1M]
>   56:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Device 1101 (rev 01)
>      Region 0: Memory at 8c300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]

Good to know that the bridge shouldn't be the problem. Do you have any
ideas how to make more vectors available to ath11k, besides
CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP? Because QCA6390 works in Windows I doubt this is a
hardware problem.

>> To summarise: Thomas is reporting[1] a problem with ath11k on QCA6390
>> PCI device where he is not having enough MSI vectors. ath11k needs 32
>> vectors but pci_alloc_irq_vectors() returns -ENOSPC. PCI support is new
>> for ath11k and introduced in v5.10-rc1. The irq allocation code is in
>> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c. [2]
>
> This code is needlessly complicated.  If you absolutely need
> msi_config.total_vectors and can't settle for any less, you can do
> this:
>
>   num_vectors = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(ab_pci->pdev,
>                                       msi_config.total_vectors,
>                                       msi_config.total_vectors,
>                                       PCI_IRQ_MSI);
>
>   if (num_vectors < 0) {
>     ath11k_err(ab, "failed to get %d MSI vectors (%d)\n",
>                msi_config.total_vectors, num_vectors);
>     return num_vectors;
>   }

True, this should be cleaned up. But of course this won't solve the
actual problem.

> But it seems a little greedy if the device can't operate at all unless
> it gets 32 vectors.  Are you sure that's a hard requirement?  Most
> devices can work with fewer vectors, even if it reduces performance.

This was my first reaction as well when I saw the code for the first
time. And the reply I got is that the firmware needs all 32 vectors, it
won't work with less.

>> I would first try with a full distro kernel config, just in case there's
>> some another important kernel config missing.
>> 
>> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath11k/2020-October/000466.html
>
> Tangent: have you considered getting this list archived on
> https://lore.kernel.org/lists.html?

Good point, actually I have not. I'll add both ath10k and ath11k lists
to lore. It's even more important now that lists.infradead.org had a
hard drive crash and lost years of archives.

Thanks for the help!

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