Sometimes we can't read an error log from OPAL, and we print an error
message accordingly. But the OPAL userspace tools seem to like retrying a
lot, in which case we flood the kernel log with a lot of messages.

Change pr_err() to pr_err_ratelimited() to help with this.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <a...@linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c 
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c
index 37b380eef41a..5821b0fa8614 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c
@@ -171,8 +171,8 @@ static ssize_t raw_attr_read(struct file *filep, struct 
kobject *kobj,
                opal_rc = opal_read_elog(__pa(elog->buffer),
                                         elog->size, elog->id);
                if (opal_rc != OPAL_SUCCESS) {
-                       pr_err("ELOG: log read failed for log-id=%llx\n",
-                              elog->id);
+                       pr_err_ratelimited("ELOG: log read failed for 
log-id=%llx\n",
+                                          elog->id);
                        kfree(elog->buffer);
                        elog->buffer = NULL;
                        return -EIO;
-- 
2.20.1

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