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

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

found 701028 src:linux/3.2.35-2
thanks

Le mercredi 20 février 2013 à 18:19 +0100, Vincent Blut a écrit :
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.7.8-1~experimental.1
> Severity: minor
> 
> 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 ;-)
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.0
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.7-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
>