pci_alloc_irq_vectors fails ENOSPC for XPS 13 9310

[wi nk]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 10:00 AM Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>
> wi nk <wink at technolu.st> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 8:15 AM Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Stefani Seibold <stefani at seibold.net> writes:
> >>
> >> > Am Donnerstag, den 12.11.2020, 02:10 +0100 schrieb 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! :)).
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > I used the vanilla kernel tree
> >> > https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-5.10-rc2.tar.gz. On top of this
> >> > i applied the
> >> >
> >> > RFT-ath11k-pci-support-platforms-with-one-MSI-vector.patch
> >> >
> >> > and reverted the patch 7fef431be9c9
> >>
> >> I did also my testing on v5.10-rc2 and I recommend to use that as the
> >> baseline when debuggin these ath11k problems. It helps to compare the
> >> results if everyone have the same baseline.
> >>
> >> --
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> >>
> >> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
> >
> > Absolutely, I'll rebuild to 5.10 later today and apply the same series
> > of patches and report back.
>
> Great, thanks.
>
> > I'll also test out the patch on both versions from Carl to fix
> > resuming. It stands to reason that we may be seeing another regression
> > between Stefani (5.10) and myself (5.9 bringup branch) as I don't see
> > any disconnections or instability once the interface is online.
>
> Yeah, there is something strange happening between v5.9 and v5.10 we
> have not yet figured out. Most likely it has something to do with memory
> allocations and DMA transfers failing, but no clear understanding yet.
>
> But to keep things simple let's only discuss the MSI problem on this
> thread, and discuss the timeouts in the another thread:
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath11k/2020-November/000641.html
>
> I'll include you and other reporters to that thread.
>
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>
> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches

Ok, I've tried a clean checkout of 5.10-rc2 with the one MSI patch
applied and 7fef431be9c9 reverted.  I can't get my machine to  boot
into anything usable with that configuration.  I'm running ubuntu so
its starting right into X and sometime between showing the available
users and me clicking the icon to login the machine freezes.  I can
see in the system tray that the wifi adapter is being activated and
appears to have associated with an AP, I just can't do much beyond
that as the keyboard backlight wakes up, but the caps lock key doesn't
work.  I see similar behavior with the 5.9 configuration, but after a
reboot or two I win whatever race is occuring.  With 5.10, I tried
maybe 10-15 times with 0 success.