[PATCH] powerpc/powernv/elog: Reduce elog message severity
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Oct 9 16:04:28 AEDT 2020
Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> OPAL interrupts kernel whenever it has new error log. Kernel calls
> interrupt handler (elog_event()) to retrieve event. elog_event makes
> OPAL API call (opal_get_elog_size()) to retrieve elog info.
>
> In some case before kernel makes opal_get_elog_size() call, it gets interrupt
> again. So second time when elog_event() calls opal_get_elog_size API OPAL
> returns error.
Can you give more detail there? Do you have a stack trace?
We use IRQF_ONESHOT for elog_event(), which (I thought) meant it
shouldn't be called again until it has completed.
So I'm unclear how you're seeing the behaviour you describe.
cheers
> Its safe to ignore this error. Hence reduce the severity
> of log message.
>
> CC: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c
> index 62ef7ad995da..67f435bb1ec4 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c
> @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ static irqreturn_t elog_event(int irq, void *data)
>
> rc = opal_get_elog_size(&id, &size, &type);
> if (rc != OPAL_SUCCESS) {
> - pr_err("ELOG: OPAL log info read failed\n");
> + pr_debug("ELOG: OPAL log info read failed\n");
> return IRQ_HANDLED;
> }
>
> --
> 2.26.2
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