linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Don't print number of MCE banks for every CPU

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Message-ID: <20091016072016.GA30019@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:20:16 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Don't print number of MCE banks for every CPU


* Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> wrote:

> The MCE initialization code explicitly says it doesn't handle asymmetric
> configurations where different CPUs support different numbers of MCE
> banks, and it prints a big warning in that case.  Therefore, printing
> the "mce: CPU supports <x> MCE banks" message into the kernel log for
> every CPU is pure redundancy that clutters the log significantly for
> systems with lots of CPUs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@...co.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks Roland!

	Ingo
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