Regression: QCA6390 fails with "mm/page_alloc: place pages to tail in __free_pages_core()"

[Pavel Procopiuc]

Op 05.11.2020 om 21:23 schreef David Hildenbrand:
>> So just to make sure I understand you correctly, you'd like to see if the problem with ath11k driver on my hardware persists when I boot pristine 5.10-rc2 kernel (without reverting commit 7fef431be9c9ac255838a9578331567b9dba4477) and with page_alloc.shuffle=1, right?
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> 
> Right, but as lists are randomized then it might take a couple of tries to reproduce. I‘ll have a look at the driver code / failing path on Monday, when back to work.

I have done 5 boots of pristine 5.10-rc2 with page_alloc.shuffle=1. Out of those: 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th resulted in 
working ath11k driver, logs were the same as with the commit 7fef431be9c9ac255838a9578331567b9dba4477 reverted. The 3rd 
one failed, but in a different way, I just had no output from the driver after initialization lines:

Nov 06 18:19:41 razor kernel: Linux version 5.10.0-rc2 (root at razor) (gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r1 p3) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 
p6) 2.34.0) #8 SMP Fri Nov 6 18:14:36 CET 2020
Nov 06 18:19:41 razor kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: [17cb:1101] type 00 class 0x028000
Nov 06 18:19:41 razor kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0xd2100000-0xd21fffff 64bit]
Nov 06 18:19:41 razor kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
Nov 06 18:19:41 razor kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: 4.000 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 5.0 GT/s PCIe x1 link at 
0000:00:1c.1 (capable of 7.876 Gb/s with 8.0 GT/s PCIe x1 link)
Nov 06 18:19:41 razor kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: Adding to iommu group 21
Nov 06 18:19:42 razor kernel: ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: WARNING: ath11k PCI support is experimental!
Nov 06 18:19:42 razor kernel: ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xd2100000-0xd21fffff 64bit]
Nov 06 18:19:42 razor kernel: ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Nov 06 18:19:42 razor kernel: mhi 0000:05:00.0: Requested to power ON
Nov 06 18:19:42 razor kernel: mhi 0000:05:00.0: Power on setup success

I had this before and usually it was fixed after rebooting into Windows and back. This time I just went and rebooted 
into Linux again and driver was working on that boot (4th).

After that I removed page_alloc.shuffle=1 and did 2 additional boots, both of them resulted in a non-working driver with 
the error messages about not being able to talk to firmware like I had before on the clean 5.10-rc2:

Nov 06 18:24:07 razor kernel: Linux version 5.10.0-rc2 (root at razor) (gcc (Gentoo 9.3.0-r1 p3) 9.3.0, GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 
p6) 2.34.0) #9 SMP Fri Nov 6 18:22:43 CET 2020
Nov 06 18:24:07 razor kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: [17cb:1101] type 00 class 0x028000
Nov 06 18:24:07 razor kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0xd2100000-0xd21fffff 64bit]
Nov 06 18:24:07 razor kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
Nov 06 18:24:07 razor kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: 4.000 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 5.0 GT/s PCIe x1 link at 
0000:00:1c.1 (capable of 7.876 Gb/s with 8.0 GT/s PCIe x1 link)
Nov 06 18:24:07 razor kernel: pci 0000:05:00.0: Adding to iommu group 21
Nov 06 18:24:08 razor kernel: ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: WARNING: ath11k PCI support is experimental!
Nov 06 18:24:08 razor kernel: ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xd2100000-0xd21fffff 64bit]
Nov 06 18:24:08 razor kernel: ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Nov 06 18:24:08 razor kernel: mhi 0000:05:00.0: Requested to power ON
Nov 06 18:24:08 razor kernel: mhi 0000:05:00.0: Power on setup success
Nov 06 18:24:08 razor kernel: ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: Respond mem req failed, result: 1, err: 0
Nov 06 18:24:08 razor kernel: ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: qmi failed to respond fw mem req:-22
Nov 06 18:24:13 razor kernel: ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: qmi failed memory request, err = -110
Nov 06 18:24:13 razor kernel: ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: qmi failed to respond fw mem req:-110
Nov 06 18:25:39 razor kernel: mhi 0000:05:00.0: Device failed to exit MHI Reset state