linux-kernel - Re: Background memory scrubbing

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Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:55:33 +0200
From:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
Cc:	rwhitton@....org, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Background memory scrubbing

On 2011.04.20 at 18:45 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2011.04.20 at 17:58 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 05:46:58PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > BTW is it really necessary to print the following to syslog:
> > > 
> > > EDAC amd64: pci-read, sdram scrub control value: 15
> > > EDAC MC: Read scrub rate: 97650
> > > 
> > > everytime one runs:
> > >  # cat /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/sdram_scrub_rate
> > > 97650
> > > 
> > > ?
> > 
> > This is KERN_DEBUG since .38 (commit 24f9a7fe3f19f3fd310f556364d01a22911724b3)
> > and it shouldn't appear on the console if you don't change your default log level.
> 
> Yes. Sorry, but I was referring to dmesg and not the console. 
> What I mean is that maybe debugf1 or debugf2 is more appropriate than
> amd64_debug?

In other words:

diff --git a/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c b/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c
index 31e71c4f..13b107e 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static int amd64_get_scrub_rate(struct mem_ctl_info *mci)
 
 	scrubval = scrubval & 0x001F;
 
-	amd64_debug("pci-read, sdram scrub control value: %d\n", scrubval);
+	debugf1 ("pci-read, sdram scrub control value: %d\n", scrubval);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(scrubrates); i++) {
 		if (scrubrates[i].scrubval == scrubval) {
diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
index 26343fd..8a34aea 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ static ssize_t mci_sdram_scrub_rate_store(struct mem_ctl_info *mci,
 
 	new_bw = mci->set_sdram_scrub_rate(mci, bandwidth);
 	if (new_bw >= 0) {
-		edac_printk(KERN_DEBUG, EDAC_MC, "Scrub rate set to %d\n", new_bw);
+		debugf1 ("Scrub rate set to %d\n", new_bw);
 		return count;
 	}
 
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ static ssize_t mci_sdram_scrub_rate_show(struct mem_ctl_info *mci, char *data)
 		return bandwidth;
 	}
 
-	edac_printk(KERN_DEBUG, EDAC_MC, "Read scrub rate: %d\n", bandwidth);
+	debugf1 ("Read scrub rate: %d\n", bandwidth);
 	return sprintf(data, "%d\n", bandwidth);
 }
 

-- 
Markus
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