linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86: Limit the number of per cpu MCE bootup messages

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Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0800
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86: Limit the number of per cpu MCE bootup messages



Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mike Travis <travis@....com> wrote:
> 
>> @@ -83,6 +86,7 @@
>>  	unsigned long flags;
>>  	int hdr = 0;
>>  	int i;
>> +	char buf[120];
> 
> that constant is not particularly nice, is it?
> 
> 	Ingo

I'm up for suggestions.  I just noticed that during testing, the
MCE Banks messages overflowed 80 chars but I didn't actually
check to see what the longest might be.

Should I trim it to 80?  Or use a different constant?

Thanks,
Mike
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