Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 May 2021 17:16:05 -0500 | From | Tyler Hicks <> | Subject | Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] EDAC: update edac printk wrappers to use printk_ratelimited. |
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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!
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 >
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