[PATCH] powerpc/powernv: Rate limit opal-elog read failure message
Andrew Donnellan
ajd at linux.ibm.com
Fri Dec 11 13:11:41 AEDT 2020
Sometimes we can't read an error log from OPAL, and we print an error
message accordingly. But the OPAL userspace tools seem to like retrying a
lot, in which case we flood the kernel log with a lot of messages.
Change pr_err() to pr_err_ratelimited() to help with this.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd at linux.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c
index 37b380eef41a..5821b0fa8614 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c
@@ -171,8 +171,8 @@ static ssize_t raw_attr_read(struct file *filep, struct kobject *kobj,
opal_rc = opal_read_elog(__pa(elog->buffer),
elog->size, elog->id);
if (opal_rc != OPAL_SUCCESS) {
- pr_err("ELOG: log read failed for log-id=%llx\n",
- elog->id);
+ pr_err_ratelimited("ELOG: log read failed for log-id=%llx\n",
+ elog->id);
kfree(elog->buffer);
elog->buffer = NULL;
return -EIO;
--
2.20.1
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