Re: invalid vht params rate 1920 100kbps nss 2 mcs 9

[James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com>]

HI Baochen,

On 6/26/24 1:53 AM, Baochen Qiang wrote:
>
> On 6/18/2024 6:33 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> + baochen
>>
>> James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Kalle,
>>>
>>> On 6/17/24 8:27 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>>> James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/16/24 6:10 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:
>>>>>> Dear Linux folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Linux 6.10-rc3 (commit a3e18a540541) logged the warning below when
>>>>>> connecting to a public WiFi:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: invalid vht params rate 1920 100kbps
>>>>>> nss 2 mcs 9
>>>>> This has been reported/discussed [1]. It was hinted that there was a
>>>>> firmware fix for this, but none that I tried got rid of it. I got fed
>>>>> up enough with the logs filling up with this I patched our kernel to
>>>>> remove the warning. AFAICT it appears benign (?). Removing the warning
>>>>> was purely "cosmetic" so other devs stopped complaining about it :)
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/ath10k@lists.infradead.org/msg13406.html
>>>> More reliable link to the discussion:
>>>>
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/ath10k/76a816d983e6c4d636311738396f97971b5523fb.1612915444.git.skhan@linuxfoundation.org/
>>>>
>>>> I think we should add this workaround I mentioned in 2021:
>>>>
>>>>      "If the firmware still keeps sending invalid rates we should add a
>>>>       specific check to ignore the known invalid values, but not all of
>>>>       them."
>>>>
>>>>      https://lore.kernel.org/ath10k/87h7mktjgi.fsf@codeaurora.org/
>>>>
>>>> I guess that would be mcs == 7 and rate == 1440?
>>> I think its more than this combination (Paul's are different).
>> Good point.
>>
>>> So how many combinations are we willing to add here? Seems like that
>>> could get out of hand if there are more than a few invalid
>>> combinations.
>> Yeah, but there haven't been that many different values reported yet,
>> right? And I expect that ath10k user base will just get smaller in the
>> future so the chances are that we will get less reports.
>>
>>> Would we also want to restrict the workaround to specific
>>> hardware/firmware?
>> Good idea, limiting per hardware would be simple to implement using
>> hw_params. Of course we could even limit this per firmware version using
>> enum ath10k_fw_features, but not sure if that's worth all the extra work.
>>
>> Baochen, do you know more about this firmware bug? Any suggestions?
> OK, there are two issues here:
>
> 1. invalid HT rate: "ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: invalid ht params rate 1440 100kbps nss 2 mcs 7".
>
> As commented by Wen quite some time ago, this has been fixed from firmware side, and firmware newer than [ver:241] has the fix included.
Thanks for pointing this out, I guess I didn't look close enough at the 
log and missed "ht" vs "vht" when I brought it up on that older thread. 
I thought i was seeing the same problem even with newer firmware.
>
> 2. invaid VHT rate: "ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: invalid vht params rate 1920 100kbps nss 2 mcs 9".
>
> After checking with firmware team, I thought this is because there is a mismatch in rate definition between host and firmware: In host, the rate for 'nss 2 mcs 9' is defined as {1560, 1733}, see supported_vht_mcs_rate_nss2[]. While in firmware this is defined as {1730, 1920}. So seems we can update host definition to avoid this issue.
That would be great!

Thanks,

James