pci_alloc_irq_vectors fails ENOSPC for XPS 13 9310

[wi nk]

I've yet to see any instability after 45 minutes of exercising it, I
do see a couple of messages that came out of the driver:

[    8.963389] ath11k_pci 0000:55:00.0: Unknown eventid: 0x16005
[   11.342317] ath11k_pci 0000:55:00.0: Unknown eventid: 0x1d00a

then when it associates:

[   16.718895] wlp85s0: send auth to ec:08:6b:27:01:ea (try 1/3)
[   16.722636] wlp85s0: authenticated
[   16.724150] wlp85s0: associate with ec:08:6b:27:01:ea (try 1/3)
[   16.726486] wlp85s0: RX AssocResp from ec:08:6b:27:01:ea
(capab=0x411 status=0 aid=8)
[   16.738443] wlp85s0: associated
[   16.764966] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp85s0: link becomes ready

The adapter is achieving around 500 mbps on my gigabit connection, my
2018 mbp sees around 650, so it's doing pretty well so far.

Stefani - when you applied the patch that Kalle shared, which branch
did you apply it to?  I applied it to ath11k-qca6390-bringup and when
I revert 7fef431be9c9 there is a small merge conflict I needed to
resolve.  I wonder if either the starting branch, or your chosen
resolution are related to the instability you see (or I'm just lucky
so far! :)).

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 1:24 AM wi nk <wink at technolu.st> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 11:02 PM Stefani Seibold <stefani at seibold.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 21:10 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> >
> > Applying the patch and revert patch 7fef431be9c9 worked on the first
> > glance.
> >
> > After a couple of minutes the connection get broken. The kernel log
> > shows the following error:
> >
> > ath11k_pci 0000:55:00.0: wmi command 16387 timeout
> > ath11k_pci 0000:55:00.0: failed to send WMI_PDEV_SET_PARAM cmd
> > ath11k_pc
> > i 0000:55:00.0: failed to enable PMF QOS: (-11
> >
> > It is also not possible to unload the ath11k_pci, rmmod will hang.
> >
> >
>
> I can confirm the same behavior as Stefani so far.  After applying the
> patch, and reverting commit 7fef431be9c9, I am able to connect to a
> network.  It hasn't disconnected yet (I'm sending this email via that
> connection).  I'll report what I find next.
>
> Thanks again for the help!