"event-scan failed" logflood

[Michael Ellerman]

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 12:58 +0000, nello martuscielli wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh <at> kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> 
> _omissis__
> > 
> > Ok, that gives us a good thing to use to not do the scanning then. If
> > that's 0 then we assume it's a bogus OF and we disable the scan
> > completely. I'll do a patch later today, though feel free to beat me to
> > it.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Ben.
> > 
> 
> hi, is there available that patch?
> With the fresh new 2.6.34 the logflood problem is still present.

You could try this, completely untested:

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c
index 4190eae..fd68bed 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtasd.c
@@ -490,6 +490,12 @@ static int __init rtas_init(void)
                return -ENODEV;
        }
 
+       if (!rtas_event_scan_rate) {
+               /* Broken firmware: take a rate of zero to mean don't scan */
+               printk(KERN_DEBUG "rtasd: scan rate is 0, not scanning\n");
+               return 0;
+       }
+
        /* Make room for the sequence number */
        rtas_error_log_max = rtas_get_error_log_max();
        rtas_error_log_buffer_max = rtas_error_log_max + sizeof(int);


cheers

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