Re: pci_alloc_irq_vectors fails ENOSPC for XPS 13 9310

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

+ linux-wireless, linux-pci, devin

Thomas Krause <thomaskrause@posteo.de> writes:

>> I had the same problem as well back in the days, for me enabling
>> CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP helped. If it helps for you also I wonder if we should
>> mention that in the ath11k warning above :)
>
> CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP did not do the trick. I noticed that the Wi-Fi card
> is behind a PCI bridge which is also disabled, could this be a
> problem?
>
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device a0b8 (rev 20) (prog-if 00
> [Normal decode])
> 	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 123
> 	Bus: primary=00, secondary=56, subordinate=56, sec-latency=0
> 	I/O behind bridge: [disabled]
> 	Memory behind bridge: 8c300000-8c3fffff [size=1M]
> 	Prefetchable memory behind bridge: [disabled]
> 	Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
> 	Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
> 	Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Dell Device 0991
> 	Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 3
> 	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
> 	Capabilities: [220] Access Control Services
> 	Capabilities: [150] Precision Time Measurement
> 	Capabilities: [200] L1 PM Substates
> 	Capabilities: [a00] Downstream Port Containment
> 	Kernel driver in use: pcieport

I don't know enough about PCI to say if the bridge is a problem or not.
I'm adding linux-wireless and linux-pci in someone can help. Also Devin
seems to have a similar problem.

To summarise: Thomas is reporting[1] a problem with ath11k on QCA6390
PCI device where he is not having enough MSI vectors. ath11k needs 32
vectors but pci_alloc_irq_vectors() returns -ENOSPC. PCI support is new
for ath11k and introduced in v5.10-rc1. The irq allocation code is in
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c. [2]

Can PCI folks help, what could cause this and how to debug it further?

I would first try with a full distro kernel config, just in case there's
some another important kernel config missing.

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath11k/2020-October/000466.html

[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c#n633

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