[PATCH] PCI/AER: correctable error message as KERN_INFO

[Grant Grundler]

Ping? Did I miss an email or other work that this patch collides with?

cheers,
grant

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 10:05 PM Grant Grundler <grundler at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Since correctable errors have been corrected (and counted), the dmesg output
> should not be reported as a warning, but rather as "informational".
>
> Otherwise, using a certain well known vendor's PCIe parts in a USB4 docking
> station, the dmesg buffer can be spammed with correctable errors, 717 bytes
> per instance, potentially many MB per day.
>
> Given the "WARN" priority, these messages have already confused the typical
> user that stumbles across them, support staff (triaging feedback reports),
> and more than a few linux kernel devs. Changing to INFO will hide these
> messages from most audiences.
>
> Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler at chromium.org>
> ---
> This patch will likely conflict with:
>   https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230103165548.570377-1-rajat.khandelwal@linux.intel.com/
>
> which I'd also like to see upstream. Please let me know to resubmit mine if Rajat's patch lands first. Or feel free to fix up this one.
>
>  drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> index f6c24ded134c..e4cf3ec40d66 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/aer.c
> @@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ static void __aer_print_error(struct pci_dev *dev,
>
>         if (info->severity == AER_CORRECTABLE) {
>                 strings = aer_correctable_error_string;
> -               level = KERN_WARNING;
> +               level = KERN_INFO;
>         } else {
>                 strings = aer_uncorrectable_error_string;
>                 level = KERN_ERR;
> @@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ void aer_print_error(struct pci_dev *dev, struct aer_err_info *info)
>         layer = AER_GET_LAYER_ERROR(info->severity, info->status);
>         agent = AER_GET_AGENT(info->severity, info->status);
>
> -       level = (info->severity == AER_CORRECTABLE) ? KERN_WARNING : KERN_ERR;
> +       level = (info->severity == AER_CORRECTABLE) ? KERN_INFO : KERN_ERR;
>
>         pci_printk(level, dev, "PCIe Bus Error: severity=%s, type=%s, (%s)\n",
>                    aer_error_severity_string[info->severity],
> --
> 2.39.2.722.g9855ee24e9-goog
>