linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/mce: Don't print all MCEs when mcelog is active

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Date:   Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:30:50 -0800
From:   Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:     x86@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/mce: Don't print all MCEs when mcelog is active

From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

Since

cd9c57c x86/MCE: Dump MCE to dmesg if no consumers

in 4.9 all MCEs are printed even when mcelog is running. This fixes
the code again to not print when mcelog is running, because it
already takes care of the logging and predicting.

This fixes spamming all xterms for corrected errors which
is really not needed.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 537c6647d84c..036fc03aefbd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@
 
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(mce_chrdev_read_mutex);
 
+static int mce_chrdev_open_count;	/* #times opened */
+
 #define mce_log_get_idx_check(p) \
 ({ \
 	RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_read_lock_sched_held() && \
@@ -601,6 +603,10 @@ static int mce_default_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val,
 	if (atomic_read(&num_notifiers) > 2)
 		return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
+	/* Don't print when mcelog is running */
+	if (mce_chrdev_open_count > 0)
+		return NOTIFY_DONE;
+
 	__print_mce(m);
 
 	return NOTIFY_DONE;
@@ -1871,7 +1877,6 @@ void mcheck_cpu_clear(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
  */
 
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(mce_chrdev_state_lock);
-static int mce_chrdev_open_count;	/* #times opened */
 static int mce_chrdev_open_exclu;	/* already open exclusive? */
 
 static int mce_chrdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
-- 
2.9.3