Re: ath11k allocation failure on resume breaking wifi until power cycle

[Jeff Johnson]

On 2/21/2024 6:39 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> starting with 6.8 rc series, I'm experiencing problems on resume from s2idle
> on my laptop, which is Lenovo T14s Gen3:
> 
> LENOVO 21CRS0K63K/21CRS0K63K, BIOS R22ET65W (1.35 )
> ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wcn6855 hw2.1
> ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: chip_id 0x12 chip_family 0xb board_id 0xff soc_id 0x400c1211
> ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: fw_version 0x1106196e fw_build_timestamp 2024-01-12 11:30 fw_build_id WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.37
> 
> The problem is an allocation failure happening on resume from s2idle. After
> that the wifi stops working and even a reboot won't fix it, only a
> poweroff/poweron cycle of the laptop.
> 
> This is order 4 (costly order), GFP_NOIO (maybe it's originally GFP_KERNEL
> but we restrict to GFP_NOIO during resume) allocation, thus it's impossible
> to do memory compaction and the page allocator gives up. Such high-order
> allocations should have a fallback using smaller pages, or maybe it could at
> least retry once the restricted GFP_NOIO context is gone.
> 
> I don't know why it never happened before 6.8, didn't spot anything obvious
> and it happens too unreliably to go bisect. Any idea?

I've asked the development team to look at this, but in the interim can
you apply the two hibernation patchsets to see if those cleanups also
fix your problem:

[PATCH 0/5] wifi: ath11k: prepare for hibernation support
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20240221024725.10057-1-quic_bqiang@xxxxxxxxxxx

[PATCH 0/3] wifi: ath11k: hibernation support
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20240221030026.10553-1-quic_bqiang@xxxxxxxxxxx