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Bug#717309: linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64: Flooding logs with core/package power limit notifications



Control: severity -1 normal
Control: tag -1 upstream

On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 09:53 +0200, Roy Meulekamp wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.2.46-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I have a Dell R720 server (12th generation) with a Debian Wheezy install. My logs are filled with messages like the following:
> kernel: [343563.924455] CPU6: Core power limit notification (total events = 232)
> kernel: [343563.924462] CPU12: Package power limit notification (total events = 237)
> kernel: [343563.933357] CPU8: Core power limit normal
> kernel: [343563.933363] CPU20: Core power limit normal
> 
> Especially during higher load (like booting), the notification messages appear. And later the 'limit normal' messages.
> This should already have been fixed in the Wheezy kernel (3.2.35-1) as I understand correctly, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695209
>
> These messages are also described here:
> See also: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36182
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=29e9bf1841e4f9df13b4992a716fece7087dd237

This is all about excluding the messages from the MCE log.

If you want these messages to be suppressed completely, you'll have to
argue that with the upstream developers (linux-edac@vger.kernel.org).
I'm not at all convinced that it's a bug.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.

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