Re: [PATCH] x86/nmi: ratelimit unknown nmi logs

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 05:48:36PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Getting notified of unknown NMIs is obviously important, but getting
> notified on every single one, especially on larger systems with slow
> (serial) console causes more harm than good when it's a known noisy
> non-relevant event.
> 
> So, let's ratelimit to avoid locking up the system.

What kind of bonghit broken crap system is that?

That is; this _really_ should not happen, and this is a bandaid, not
fixing the cause.