Test new xradio firmware

[Werner]

If somebody has a chance to test new firmware blob for XR819 feedback would be appreciated

Simply grab the fw_xr819.bin from the PR below, replace your current one and reboot. Check if Wi-Fi still works as expected or ideally even better.

The file is located here: /usr/lib/firmware/xr819/

 

https://github.com/armbian/firmware/commit/aff348fa9eef0fcc97d4f2bb7304f0862baffc20

 

If in doubt create a backup of your current firmware bin.

[martinayotte]

17 minutes ago, Werner said:

If somebody has a chance to test new firmware blob for XR819 feedback would be appreciated

Upgrade done ! No side effect seen until now ...

[Hammy]

As far as I can tell nothing much changed - nothing negative and nothing positive (still 200ms ping).

 

Did I actually install the new version or am I just an idiot?

 

[   10.021886] xradio: XR819 device discovered
[   10.181980] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db
[   10.257067] xradio: hardware vers. 7.9
[   10.257082] xradio: firmware vers. 8 (WSM), build 5258, api 1060, cap 0x0003
[   10.257086] xradio: Config USE_EXTENSIONS

[Werner]

1 minute ago, Hammy said:

build 5258,

Yes, it is the new version.

[Hammy]

The power management still acts up on my board.

Ping is arround 200ms even though Power Management:off

If I let the orange Pi ping the router or something else every 50ms ( ping -i 0,05 ) the orange pi responds < 5ms. I assume the ping command forces it out of the power safe mode.

Can you confirm this?

[Hammy]

After 24h running the new firmware on Armbian 21.02.0-trunk Buster with Linux 5.9.11-sunxi I got the following:

 

[7789.126960] xradio WRN: BH: missed 9 consecutive interrupts!
[ 7798.343147] xradio WRN: BH: missed 10 consecutive interrupts!
[ 8168.424968] xradio WRN: BH: missed 11 consecutive interrupts!
[ 8317.727378] xradio WRN: BH: missed 12 consecutive interrupts!
[ 8458.633587] xradio WRN: BH: missed 13 consecutive interrupts!
[ 8875.000177] xradio WRN: BH: missed 14 consecutive interrupts!
[ 9703.025621] xradio WRN: BH: missed 15 consecutive interrupts!
[11029.338694] xradio WRN: BH: missed 16 consecutive interrupts!
[11698.845312] xradio WRN: BH: missed 17 consecutive interrupts!
[11830.943440] xradio WRN: BH: missed 18 consecutive interrupts!

[...]

 

and:

[14108.446345] wlan0: XXX tries to chanswitch to same channel, ignore
[14108.446708] wlan0: cannot understand ECSA IE operating class, 11, ignoring

 

Edit: and:

[ 5248.939102] xradio STA-WRN: [CQM] BSS lost, Beacon miss=20, event=24.
[ 5249.043167] xradio STA-WRN: [CQM] Beacon loss.
[ 5251.051198] xradio STA-ERR: [CQM] if0 Reporting connection loss.

 

[Werner]

2 minutes ago, Hammy said:

After 24h running the new firmware on Armbian 21.02.0-trunk Buster with Linux 5.9.11-sunxi I got the following:

 

[7789.126960] xradio WRN: BH: missed 9 consecutive interrupts!
[ 7798.343147] xradio WRN: BH: missed 10 consecutive interrupts!
[ 8168.424968] xradio WRN: BH: missed 11 consecutive interrupts!
[ 8317.727378] xradio WRN: BH: missed 12 consecutive interrupts!
[ 8458.633587] xradio WRN: BH: missed 13 consecutive interrupts!
[ 8875.000177] xradio WRN: BH: missed 14 consecutive interrupts!
[ 9703.025621] xradio WRN: BH: missed 15 consecutive interrupts!
[11029.338694] xradio WRN: BH: missed 16 consecutive interrupts!
[11698.845312] xradio WRN: BH: missed 17 consecutive interrupts!
[11830.943440] xradio WRN: BH: missed 18 consecutive interrupts!

[...]

 

and:

[14108.446345] wlan0: XXX tries to chanswitch to same channel, ignore
[14108.446708] wlan0: cannot understand ECSA IE operating class, 11, ignoring

 

This did not happen with the old version?

[Hammy]

vor 19 Minuten schrieb Werner:

This did not happen with the old version?

Thats my problem, I never checked on the old one, just wrote it off as buggy.

I’ll monitor a few more days, roll back to standard Armbian on Friday and report back the differences

[martinayotte]

On 11/30/2020 at 10:36 AM, Werner said:

This did not happen with the old version?

I've checked on my second OPi0 where I didn't upgrade firmware, so still previous version, and the issue is also present :

[   14.824376] xradio: XR819 device discovered
[   15.056442] xradio: hardware vers. 7.9
[   15.056457] xradio: firmware vers. 8 (WSM), build 43, api 1060, cap 0x0003
[   15.056460] xradio: Config USE_EXTENSIONS
[   40.809788] xradio TXRX-WRN: received frame has no key status
[   40.809802] xradio TXRX-WRN: dropped received frame
[ 3653.654011] xradio WRN: BH: missed 4 consecutive interrupts!
[ 5423.670767] xradio WRN: BH: missed 5 consecutive interrupts!
[ 7584.760350] xradio WRN: BH: missed 6 consecutive interrupts!
[ 9724.478792] xradio WRN: BH: missed 7 consecutive interrupts!
[10080.291066] xradio WRN: BH: missed 8 consecutive interrupts!
[10777.751448] xradio WRN: BH: missed 9 consecutive interrupts!
[13480.647858] xradio WRN: BH: missed 10 consecutive interrupts!
[18367.827745] xradio WRN: BH: missed 11 consecutive interrupts!
[19237.530227] xradio WRN: BH: missed 12 consecutive interrupts!
[20461.024844] xradio WRN: BH: missed 13 consecutive interrupts!

 

[sunzone]

On 12/1/2020 at 12:36 AM, Werner said:

This did not happen with the old version?

This issue exists on previous version

[sunzone]

I have observed kernel panics using xradio driver before. Check Opizero wifi kernel hang

I decided to test it with this driver.
Summary: No improvements

 

Ap mode

No kernel panics were observed during 1 day when running only on AP mode.

 

However, when Orange Pi is rebooted in AP mode, kernel panic was observed.

After running 5 Orange Pi devices, after 60 average reboots, Kernel panic occurred for all devices.

[   25.238909] xradio WSM-ERR: CMD timeout!>>> 0x0006 (16), buf_use=1, bh_state=0
[   25.247990] xradio WSM-ERR: bh error!>>> 0x0006 (12)
[   25.254591] xradio WSM-ERR: bh error!>>> 0x0006 (12)
[   25.261367] xradio WSM-ERR: bh error!>>> 0x0012 (16)
[   25.266375] xradio STA-ERR: wsm_set_tx_queue_params failed!
[   25.271979] xradio WSM-ERR: bh error!>>> 0x0012 (16)
[   25.276963] xradio STA-ERR: wsm_set_tx_queue_params failed!
[   25.282555] xradio WSM-ERR: bh error!>>> 0x0012 (16)
[   25.287536] xradio STA-ERR: wsm_set_tx_queue_params failed!
[   25.293128] xradio WSM-ERR: bh error!>>> 0x0012 (16)
[   25.298109] xradio STA-ERR: wsm_set_tx_queue_params failed!
[   42.299138] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
[   42.304730] rcu:     1-....: (1 GPs behind) idle=21e/1/0x40000002 softirq=3544/3545 fqs=2623
[   74.743671] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched detected expedited stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 1-... } 5569 jiffies s: 129 root: 0x2/.
[   74.754140] rcu: blocking rcu_node structures:

Same error was observed in old firmware.

 

Client mode

No kernel panics were observed during 1 day when connected to an AP with a non-changing channel.

 

Running in Client mode and changing AP’s channel result in similar kernel panic.

But this occurred rarely. Running 5 Orange pi zero devices and changing channel continuously 72 times, lead to a Kernel panic only on 1 device.

 

Running in Client mode, and rebooting also result in Kernel panic.

It took an average of 200 reboots for the Kernel panic for 5 Orange Pi Zero Devices.

Same error occurred on all situations.

 

Hope this helps.

This is how I tested.

[Werner]

So at the bottom line no improvement but no degradation as well.

[Werner]

New blob has been merged into master.

[Hammy]

Tested with the standard Armbian 20.11 Buster with Linux 5.8.16-sunxi

 

[7789.126960] xradio WRN: BH: missed 9 consecutive interrupts!
[ 7798.343147] xradio WRN: BH: missed 10 consecutive interrupts!
[ 8168.424968] xradio WRN: BH: missed 11 consecutive interrupts!

As already mentioned happens also on the old version

 

[14108.446345] wlan0: XXX tries to chanswitch to same channel, ignore
[14108.446708] wlan0: cannot understand ECSA IE operating class, 11, ignoring

Happened only once with the new version in 6 days, never with the old version. I have however something similar on the OPiZ+ with roughly the same time stamp and hence doubt that the firmware is to blame.

 

[ 5248.939102] xradio STA-WRN: [CQM] BSS lost, Beacon miss=20, event=24.
[ 5249.043167] xradio STA-WRN: [CQM] Beacon loss.
[ 5251.051198] xradio STA-ERR: [CQM] if0 Reporting connection loss.

Only happened once with the new firmware, never with the old. Don’t know what to think of it.

 

-> The firmware seems to be just as crappy as before. Is there a changelog available?

[Werner]

3 hours ago, Hammy said:

Is there a changelog available?

 

Jokes aside. If I had to guess I'd say no. Could not find anything valuable on a quick research.

[Netanel]

Hi everyone, I get an error when I work in AP mode, does anyone have anything new what can be done to overcome this?
Thank you!

 

 

 

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Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c087c2f5>] (netlink_rcv_skb) from [<c087c831>] (genl_rcv+0x21/0x30)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c087c831>] (genl_rcv) from [<c087bca1>] (netlink_unicast+0x121/0x19c)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c087bca1>] (netlink_unicast) from [<c087bea9>] (netlink_sendmsg+0x18d/0x31c)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c087bea9>] (netlink_sendmsg) from [<c080fc33>] (sock_sendmsg+0x23/0x2c)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c080fc33>] (sock_sendmsg) from [<c0810131>] (____sys_sendmsg+0x191/0x1a4)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c0810131>] (____sys_sendmsg) from [<c08112f5>] (___sys_sendmsg+0x49/0x64)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c08112f5>] (___sys_sendmsg) from [<c08115c3>] (__sys_sendmsg+0x37/0x58)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c08115c3>] (__sys_sendmsg) from [<c0100061>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x62)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: Exception stack(0xc9d17fa8 to 0xc9d17ff0)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: 7fa0:                   00000074 01932120 00000006 bef5c7b8 00000000 00000000
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: 7fc0: 00000074 01932120 01916378 00000128 b6f8d000 00000000 00000001 00000004
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: 7fe0: 00000128 bef5c768 b6b9851f b6b14746
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: ---[ end trace fb013619993976f1 ]---
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: xradio WSM-ERR: bh error!>>~<▒▒▒-▒▒▒▒▒3▒▒▒▒▒▒▒7▒0▒▒2▒4▒ero kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1080 at drivers/net/wireless/xradio/ap.c:693 xradio_bss_info_changed+0x78b/0xb84 [xradio_wlan]
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: Modules linked in: nft_counter xt_state xt_conntrack nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_tcpudp nft_compat nf_tables nfnetlink xradio_wlan sun4i_gpadc_iio fb_ili9341(C) mac80211 fbtft(C) industrialio cfg80211 sun8i_thermal rfkill libarc4 zram uio_pdrv_genirq uio cpufreq_dt usb_f_acm u_serial g_serial libcomposite sunrpc ip_tables x_tables autofs4 pwrseq_simple sunxi phy_generic
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: CPU: 1 PID: 1080 Comm: wpa_supplicant Tainted: G        WC        5.10.43-sunxi #21.05.6
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: Hardware name: Allwinner sun8i Family
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c010ca1d>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010952d>] (show_stack+0x11/0x14)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c010952d>] (show_stack) from [<c0972dbb>] (dump_stack+0x77/0x84)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c0972dbb>] (dump_stack) from [<c011af05>] (__warn+0xad/0xc0)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c011af05>] (__warn) from [<c096cd0b>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x43/0x7c)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c096cd0b>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<bf96bffb>] (xradio_bss_info_changed+0x78b/0xb84 [xradio_wlan])
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<bf96bffb>] (xradio_bss_info_changed [xradio_wlan]) from [<bf992b85>] (ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify+0x7d/0x1ac [mac80211])
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<bf992b85>] (ieee80211_bss_info_change_notify [mac80211]) from [<bf9a4fa3>] (ieee80211_do_open+0x113/0x7cc [mac80211])
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<bf9a4fa3>] (ieee80211_do_open [mac80211]) from [<bf9a57d1>] (ieee80211_if_change_type+0x135/0x24c [mac80211])
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<bf9a57d1>] (ieee80211_if_change_type [mac80211]) from [<bf9a97d1>] (ieee80211_change_iface+0x1d/0x60 [mac80211])
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<bf9a97d1>] (ieee80211_change_iface [mac80211]) from [<bf8dd0c3>] (cfg80211_change_iface+0x7f/0x380 [cfg80211])
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<bf8dd0c3>] (cfg80211_change_iface [cfg80211]) from [<bf8fc3f5>] (nl80211_set_interface+0xc9/0x164 [cfg80211])
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<bf8fc3f5>] (nl80211_set_interface [cfg80211]) from [<c087dd09>] (genl_rcv_msg+0x125/0x27c)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c087dd09>] (genl_rcv_msg) from [<c087c2f5>] (netlink_rcv_skb+0x81/0xb4)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c087c2f5>] (netlink_rcv_skb) from [<c087c831>] (genl_rcv+0x21/0x30)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c087c831>] (genl_rcv) from [<c087bca1>] (netlink_unicast+0x121/0x19c)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c087bca1>] (netlink_unicast) from [<c087bea9>] (netlink_sendmsg+0x18d/0x31c)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c087bea9>] (netlink_sendmsg) from [<c080fc33>] (sock_sendmsg+0x23/0x2c)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c080fc33>] (sock_sendmsg) from [<c0810131>] (____sys_sendmsg+0x191/0x1a4)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c0810131>] (____sys_sendmsg) from [<c08112f5>] (___sys_sendmsg+0x49/0x64)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c08112f5>] (___sys_sendmsg) from [<c08115c3>] (__sys_sendmsg+0x37/0x58)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: [<c08115c3>] (__sys_sendmsg) from [<c0100061>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x62)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: Exception stack(0xc9d17fa8 to 0xc9d17ff0)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: 7fa0:                   00000074 01932120 00000006 bef5c7b8 00000000 00000000
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: 7fc0: 00000074 01932120 01916378 00000128 b6f8d000 00000000 00000001 00000004
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: 7fe0: 00000128 bef5c768 b6b9851f b6b14746
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: ---[ end trace fb013619993976f2 ]---
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: xradio WSM-ERR: bh error!>>> 0x0012 (16)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: xradio STA-ERR: wsm_set_tx_queue_params failed!
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: xradio WSM-ERR: bh error!>>> 0x0012 (16)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: xradio STA-ERR: wsm_set_tx_queue_params failed!
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: xradio WSM-ERR: bh error!>>> 0x0012 (16)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: xradio STA-ERR: wsm_set_tx_queue_params failed!
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: xradio WSM-ERR: bh error!>>> 0x0012 (16)
Aug 15 10:30:55 orangepizero kernel: xradio STA-ERR: wsm_set_tx_queue_params failed!
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: rcu:         3-....: (5249 ticks this GP) idle=b12/1/0x40000002 softirq=8452/8452 fqs=2390
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel:         (t=5250 jiffies g=11401 q=47470)
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: NMI backtrace for cpu 3
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: CPU: 3 PID: 436 Comm: xradio_bh Tainted: G        WC        5.10.43-sunxi #21.05.6
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: Hardware name: Allwinner sun8i Family
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: [<c010ca1d>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010952d>] (show_stack+0x11/0x14)
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: [<c010952d>] (show_stack) from [<c0972dbb>] (dump_stack+0x77/0x84)
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: [<c0972dbb>] (dump_stack) from [<c058a63b>] (nmi_cpu_backtrace+0x8f/0xb0)
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: [<c058a63b>] (nmi_cpu_backtrace) from [<c058a729>] (nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace+0xcd/0xdc)
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: [<c058a729>] (nmi_trigger_cpumask_backtrace) from [<c096da1b>] (rcu_dump_cpu_stacks+0xb1/0xce)
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: [<c096da1b>] (rcu_dump_cpu_stacks) from [<c01728f7>] (rcu_sched_clock_irq+0x5d7/0x7ac)
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: [<c01728f7>] (rcu_sched_clock_irq) from [<c0179c45>] (update_process_times+0x55/0x7c)
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: [<c0179c45>] (update_process_times) from [<c018826b>] (tick_sched_timer+0x37/0x74)
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: [<c018826b>] (tick_sched_timer) from [<c017a663>] (__hrtimer_run_queues+0x103/0x238)
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: [<c017a663>] (__hrtimer_run_queues) from [<c017afd9>] (hrtimer_interrupt+0xd1/0x200)
Aug 15 10:31:14 orangepizero kernel: [<c017afd9>] (hrtimer_interrupt) from [<c07c1613>] (arch_timer_handler_phys+0x27/0x2c)

 

Edited August 15, 2021 by Netanel
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