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  1. Bug #1860284
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Comment 17 for bug 1860284

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In , benoitg (benoitg-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

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I have thinkpad thunderbolt 3 dock gen2 dock I am trying to use with a New Lenovo Yoga C940-14IIL laptop. Laptop is very recent hardware, with a 10th gen intel cpu, and a bios with very few options :(

- The dock works fine when plugged-in before boot.
- The dock does NOT work when plugged after the system booted.
- The dock does NOT work when plugged-in at boot, subsequently unplugged and plugged back in.
- The dock work fine in windows, in all the above scenarios

When it fails, it fails with memory allocation messages such as:

[ 342.507320] pci 0000:2b:00.0: BAR 14: no space for [mem size 0x0c200000]
[ 342.507323] pci 0000:2b:00.0: BAR 14: failed to assign [mem size 0x0c200000]

Things I tried:
- Ubuntu kernel 5.3.0-26, same symptoms
- Kernel mainline 5.4.12, same symptoms
- Kernel mainline 5.5.2, same symptoms, but gets a little further allocating memory on the second pass.
- Plugging the dock after powering up the laptop, but at the grub screen before boot. In this case the dock works fine after boot.

Other potentially useful information to narrow it down:

- The tests were done with only an ethernet cable and power plugged into the dock to minimize the number of moving parts...

- Dock and laptop both have the very latest firmware as of 2020-02-07
cat /sys/bus/thunderbolt/devices/0-0/nvm_version
72.0
cat /sys/bus/thunderbolt/devices/0-3/nvm_version
50.0

- Unfortunately I cannot procure older firmware for the dock to know if the laptop or the dock is the source of the problem (As this dock was released over a year ago, and I cannot find any specific relevant problems with Linux)

- The screens connected to the displayports on the dock always work. But but all other ports (USB, ethernet, sound fail) when plugged-in after boot.

- Doesn't seem to be a thunderbolt authorization problem:
tbtadm devices
0-3 Lenovo ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 Dock authorized not in ACL

Originally reported to ubuntu in: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1860284