pci_alloc_irq_vectors fails ENOSPC for XPS 13 9310

[Kalle Valo]

Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org> writes:

> Thomas Krause <thomaskrause at posteo.de> writes:
>
>> Am 10.11.20 um 09:33 schrieb Kalle Valo:
>>>
>>>> I was told that on Dell XPS 15 (with a working QCA6390 setup) there's a
>>>> separate "Virtualisation" setting in BIOS. See if you have that and try
>>>> enabling it.
>>> I was informed about another setting to test: try disabling "Enable
>>> Secure Boot" in the BIOS. I don't know yet why it would help, but that's
>>> what few people have recommended.
>>>
>>> Please let me know how it goes.
>>>
>> I have two options under "Virtualization" in the BIOS: "Enable Intel
>> Virtualization Technology (VT)" and "VT for Direct I/O". Both were
>> enabled. Secure boot was also turned off. BIOS version is also at the
>> most current version 1.1.1.
>
> This is good to know, thanks for testing. Now we have explored all
> possible BIOS options as I know of.
>
>> Because of the dmesg errors Thomas Gleixner mentioned, I assume it
>> would be best to contact Dell directly (even if I'm not sure if and
>> how fast they will respond).
>
> I have asked our people to report this to Dell, but no response yet.
>
>> If the driver would manage to work with only 1 vector, I assume this
>> would also make it work on my configuration, even with possible
>> performance hits.
>
> This is the workaround we are working on at the moment. There's now a
> proof of concept patch but I'm not certain if it will work. I'll post it
> as soon as I can and will provide the link in this thread.

The proof of concept patch for v5.10-rc2 is here:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/1605121102-14352-1-git-send-email-kvalo@codeaurora.org/

Hopefully it makes it possible to boot the firmware now. But this is a
quick hack and most likely buggy, so keep your expectations low :)

In case there are these warnings during firmware initialisation:

ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: qmi failed memory request, err = -110
ath11k_pci 0000:05:00.0: qmi failed to respond fw mem req:-110

Try reverting this commit:

7fef431be9c9 mm/page_alloc: place pages to tail in __free_pages_core()

That's another issue which is debugged here:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath11k/2020-November/000550.html

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