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authorAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>2009-02-12 13:49:33 +0100
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2009-02-24 13:25:53 -0800
commit8457c84d68678cbfd4167a9073b89da58e48c037 (patch)
treedee40adc349b3789af984474f87e6231ab7c4d02
parentf9695df42cdbca78530b4458c38ecfdd0bb90079 (diff)
x86, mce: replace machine check events logged interval with ratelimit
Impact: behavior change, use common code Use a standard leaky bucket ratelimit for the machine check warning print interval instead of waiting every check_interval. Also decrease the limit to twice per minute. This interacts better with threshold interrupts because they can happen more often than check_interval. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
index 39f8bb525a74..9017609cadd9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include <linux/kdebug.h>
#include <linux/kobject.h>
#include <linux/sysfs.h>
+#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/msr.h>
#include <asm/mce.h>
@@ -488,11 +489,11 @@ static DECLARE_WORK(mce_trigger_work, mce_do_trigger);
*/
int mce_notify_user(void)
{
+ /* Not more than two messages every minute */
+ static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(ratelimit, 60*HZ, 2);
+
clear_thread_flag(TIF_MCE_NOTIFY);
if (test_and_clear_bit(0, &notify_user)) {
- static unsigned long last_print;
- unsigned long now = jiffies;
-
wake_up_interruptible(&mce_wait);
/*
@@ -503,10 +504,8 @@ int mce_notify_user(void)
if (trigger[0] && !work_pending(&mce_trigger_work))
schedule_work(&mce_trigger_work);
- if (time_after_eq(now, last_print + (check_interval*HZ))) {
- last_print = now;
+ if (__ratelimit(&ratelimit))
printk(KERN_INFO "Machine check events logged\n");
- }
return 1;
}