On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 05:54:24PM +0200, Benjamin Berg wrote:
> On modern CPUs it is quite normal that the temperature limits are
> reached and the CPU is throttled. In fact, often the thermal design is
> not sufficient to cool the CPU at full load and limits can quickly be
> reached when a burst in load happens. This will even happen with
> technologies like RAPL limitting the long term power consumption of
> the package.
>
> So these messages do not usually indicate a hardware issue (e.g.
> insufficient cooling). Log them as warnings to avoid confusion about
> their severity.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <bb...@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Christian Kellner <ckell...@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c
> b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c
> index 6e2becf547c5..bc441d68d060 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c
> @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static void therm_throt_process(bool new_event, int
> event, int level)
> /* if we just entered the thermal event */
> if (new_event) {
> if (event == THERMAL_THROTTLING_EVENT)
> - pr_crit("CPU%d: %s temperature above threshold, cpu
> clock throttled (total events = %lu)\n",
> + pr_warn("CPU%d: %s temperature above threshold, cpu
> clock throttled (total events = %lu)\n",
> this_cpu,
> level == CORE_LEVEL ? "Core" : "Package",
> state->count);
> --
This has carried over since its very first addition in
commit 3867eb75b9279c7b0f6840d2ad9f27694ba6c4e4
Author: Dave Jones <da...@suse.de>
Date: Tue Apr 2 20:02:27 2002 -0800
[PATCH] x86 bluesmoke update.
o Make MCE compile time optional (Paul Gortmaker)
o P4 thermal trip monitoring. (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Non-fatal MCE logging. (Me)
It used to be KERN_EMERG back then, though.
And yes, this issue has come up in the past already so I think I'll take
it. I'll just give Intel folks a couple of days to object should there
be anything to object to.
Thx.
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Boris.
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