Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] EDAC: update edac printk wrappers to use printk_ratelimited.

[Tyler Hicks]

On 2021-05-05 17:16:11, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> On 2021-05-06 00:02:44, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 04:48:46PM -0500, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> > > The thought was that the full stream of log messages isn't necessary to
> > > notice that there's a problem when they are being emitted at such a high
> > > rate (500 per second). They're just filling up disk space and/or wasting
> > > networking bandwidth at that point.
> > 
> > I already asked about this but lemme point it out again: have you guys
> > looked at drivers/ras/cec.c ?
> 
> We'll have a closer look. Thanks for the pointer!

This is x86-specific and not applicable in our situation.

Tyler

> 
> Tyler
> 
> > 
> > With that there won't be *any* error reports in dmesg and it will even
> > poison and offline pages which generate excessive errors so that ...
> > 
> > > Of course, the best course of action here is to service the machine
> > > but there's still a period of time between the CE errors popping up
> > > and the machine being serviced.
> > 
> > ... you'll have ample time to service the machine.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Regards/Gruss,
> >     Boris.
> > 
> > https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
> >