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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Lower throttling MCE messages to warnings
To:     Benjamin Berg <bberg@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
        Christian Kellner <ckellner@redhat.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, x86@kernel.org,
        linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
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From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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Date:   Wed, 9 Oct 2019 17:57:36 +0200
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Hi,

On 09-10-2019 17:54, Benjamin Berg wrote:
> On modern CPUs it is quite normal that the temperature limits are
> reached and the CPU is throttled. In fact, often the thermal design is
> not sufficient to cool the CPU at full load and limits can quickly be
> reached when a burst in load happens. This will even happen with
> technologies like RAPL limitting the long term power consumption of
> the package.
> 
> So these messages do not usually indicate a hardware issue (e.g.
> insufficient cooling). Log them as warnings to avoid confusion about
> their severity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <bberg@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Christian Kellner <ckellner@redhat.com>

Ah, yes lets please lower the log-prio of these messages:

Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

Regards,

Hans


> ---
>   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c
> index 6e2becf547c5..bc441d68d060 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c
> @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static void therm_throt_process(bool new_event, int event, int level)
>   	/* if we just entered the thermal event */
>   	if (new_event) {
>   		if (event == THERMAL_THROTTLING_EVENT)
> -			pr_crit("CPU%d: %s temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = %lu)\n",
> +			pr_warn("CPU%d: %s temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = %lu)\n",
>   				this_cpu,
>   				level == CORE_LEVEL ? "Core" : "Package",
>   				state->count);
>