pci_alloc_irq_vectors fails ENOSPC for XPS 13 9310

[wi nk]

Kalle,

  Thanks so much for your and your teams efforts.  I've applied the
patch, and I'm receiving some errors similar to what you thought might
occur:

[    7.802756] ath11k_pci 0000:55:00.0: WARNING: ath11k PCI support is
experimental!
[    7.802797] ath11k_pci 0000:55:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem
0x8e300000-0x8e3fffff 64bit]
[    7.802815] ath11k_pci 0000:55:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    7.803291] ath11k_pci 0000:55:00.0: MSI vectors: 1
[    8.172623] ath11k_pci 0000:55:00.0: Respond mem req failed,
result: 1, err: 48
[    8.172624] ath11k_pci 0000:55:00.0: qmi failed to respond fw mem req:-22

I've reverted the commit you mentioned and am rebuilding now.  I'll
test in a few minutes.

Thanks!

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 8:10 PM Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>
> 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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