Sometimes we can't get a valid si_sm_data, and we print an error message accordingly. But the ipmi module seem to like retrying a lot, in which case we flood the kernel log with a lot of messages, eg:
[46318019.164726] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Could not set the global enables: 0xc1. [46318020.109700] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Could not set the global enables: 0xc1. [46318021.158677] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Could not set the global enables: 0xc1. [46318022.212598] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Could not set the global enables: 0xc1. [46318023.258564] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Could not set the global enables: 0xc1. [46318024.210455] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Could not set the global enables: 0xc1. [46318025.260473] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Could not set the global enables: 0xc1. [46318026.308445] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Could not set the global enables: 0xc1. [46318027.356389] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Could not set the global enables: 0xc1. [46318028.298288] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Could not set the global enables: 0xc1. [46318029.363302] ipmi_si IPI0001:00: Could not set the global enables: 0xc1. Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <weny...@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Baoyou Xie <baoyou....@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Corey Minyard <miny...@acm.org> Cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c index 62929a3..f64c3ac 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ static void handle_transaction_done(struct smi_info *smi_info) smi_info->handlers->get_result(smi_info->si_sm, msg, 3); if (msg[2] != 0) { /* Error clearing flags */ - dev_warn(smi_info->io.dev, + dev_warn_ratelimited(smi_info->io.dev, "Error clearing flags: %2.2x\n", msg[2]); } smi_info->si_state = SI_NORMAL; @@ -683,10 +683,11 @@ static void handle_transaction_done(struct smi_info *smi_info) /* We got the flags from the SMI, now handle them. */ smi_info->handlers->get_result(smi_info->si_sm, msg, 4); if (msg[2] != 0) { - dev_warn(smi_info->io.dev, - "Couldn't get irq info: %x.\n", msg[2]); - dev_warn(smi_info->io.dev, - "Maybe ok, but ipmi might run very slowly.\n"); +#define IPMI_WARN_CHECKING_ENABLES "Maybe ok, but ipmi might run very slowly." + + dev_warn_ratelimited(smi_info->io.dev, + "Couldn't get irq info: %x, %s\n", + msg[2], IPMI_WARN_CHECKING_ENABLES); smi_info->si_state = SI_NORMAL; break; } @@ -721,7 +722,7 @@ static void handle_transaction_done(struct smi_info *smi_info) smi_info->handlers->get_result(smi_info->si_sm, msg, 4); if (msg[2] != 0) - dev_warn(smi_info->io.dev, + dev_warn_ratelimited(smi_info->io.dev, "Could not set the global enables: 0x%x.\n", msg[2]); @@ -1343,7 +1344,7 @@ static int try_get_dev_id(struct smi_info *smi_info) if (cc != IPMI_CC_NO_ERROR && ++retry_count <= GET_DEVICE_ID_MAX_RETRY) { - dev_warn(smi_info->io.dev, + dev_warn_ratelimited(smi_info->io.dev, "BMC returned 0x%2.2x, retry get bmc device id\n", cc); goto retry; -- 1.8.3.1 _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list Openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer