Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] ath10k: reduce invalid ht params rate message noise

From: Kalle Valo <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:28:45 +0200

Wen Gong <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 2021-02-10 08:42, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> ath10k_mac_get_rate_flags_ht() floods dmesg with the following
>> messages,
>> when it fails to find a match for mcs=7 and rate=1440.
>>
>> supported_ht_mcs_rate_nss2:
>> {7,  {1300, 2700, 1444, 3000} }
>>
>> ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: invalid ht params rate 1440 100kbps nss 2
>> mcs 7
>>
>> dev_warn_ratelimited() isn't helping the noise. Use dev_warn_once()
>> instead.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c | 5 +++--
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
>> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
>> index 3545ce7dce0a..276321f0cfdd 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
>> @@ -8970,8 +8970,9 @@ static void ath10k_mac_get_rate_flags_ht(struct
>> ath10k *ar, u32 rate, u8 nss, u8
>>  		*bw |= RATE_INFO_BW_40;
>>  		*flags |= RATE_INFO_FLAGS_SHORT_GI;
>>  	} else {
>> -		ath10k_warn(ar, "invalid ht params rate %d 100kbps nss %d mcs %d",
>> -			    rate, nss, mcs);
>> +		dev_warn_once(ar->dev,
>> +			      "invalid ht params rate %d 100kbps nss %d mcs %d",
>> +			      rate, nss, mcs);
>>  	}
>>  }
>
> The {7,  {1300, 2700, 1444, 3000} } is a correct value.
> The 1440 is report from firmware, its a wrong value, it has fixed in
> firmware.

In what version?

> If change it to dev_warn_once, then it will have no chance to find the
> other wrong values which report by firmware, and it indicate
> a wrong value to mac80211/cfg80211 and lead "iw wlan0 station dump"
> get a wrong bitrate.

I agree, we should keep this warning. 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.

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