Bug#701028: src:linux: Thermal throttle events are too verbose

[Vincent Blut <vincent.debian@free.fr>]

Package: src:linux
Version: 3.7.8-1~experimental.1
Severity: minor

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Hi,

The thermal throttle event support code located in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
which handles thermal interrupts if CONFIG_X86_MCE_INTEL is set to 'y'
causes too much noise in the kernel ring buffer:

$ dmesg | grep "Package power" | wc -l
392

Actually I think it would be more efficient to just print critical events
(cpu throttling) in syslog and mcelog and leave benign notifications 
in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/thermal_throttle/ 

So do you think getting rid of these messages would be acceptable? 

Cheers,
Vincent


P.S: I know I could restrict the output of 'dmesg' to not take into
account KERN_INFO but that's quite annoying ;-)


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Debian Release: 7.0
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.7-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
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