linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/2] spi: tegra210-quad: use WARN_ON_ONCE instead of WARN

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Message-Id: <20250401-tegra-v2-1-126c293ec047@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:47:49 -0700
From: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>, 
 Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>, 
 Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatineni@...dia.com>, 
 Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@...dia.com>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rmikey@...a.com, 
 Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>, kernel-team@...a.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] spi: tegra210-quad: use WARN_ON_ONCE instead of
 WARN_ON for timeouts

Some machines with tegra_qspi_combined_seq_xfer hardware issues generate
excessive kernel warnings, severely polluting the logs:

    dmesg | grep -i "WARNING:.*tegra_qspi_transfer_one_message" | wc -l
    94451

This patch replaces WARN_ON with WARN_ON_ONCE for timeout conditions to
reduce log spam. The subsequent error message still prints on each
occurrence, providing sufficient information about the failure, while
the stack trace is only needed once for debugging purposes.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
---
 drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c b/drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c
index 08e49a8768943..2d320fbb8875f 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-tegra210-quad.c
@@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ static int tegra_qspi_combined_seq_xfer(struct tegra_qspi *tqspi,
 					(&tqspi->xfer_completion,
 					QSPI_DMA_TIMEOUT);
 
-			if (WARN_ON(ret == 0)) {
+			if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret == 0)) {
 				dev_err(tqspi->dev, "QSPI Transfer failed with timeout: %d\n",
 					ret);
 				if (tqspi->is_curr_dma_xfer &&

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