x86: mce: Fix thermal throttling message storm
If a system switches back and forth between hot and cold mode,
the MCE code will print a stream of critical kernel messages.
Extend the throttling code to properly notice this, by
only printing the first hot + cold transition and omitting
the rest up to CHECK_INTERVAL (5 minutes).
This way we'll only get a single incident of:
[ 102.356584] CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 1)
[ 102.357000] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 102.369223] CPU0: Temperature/speed normal
Every 5 minutes. The 'total events' count tells the number of cold/hot
transitions detected, should overheating occur after 5 minutes again:
[ 402.357580] CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 24891)
[ 402.358001] CPU0: Temperature/speed normal
[ 450.704142] Machine check events logged
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
index db80b57..b3a1dba 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
u64 next_check;
unsigned long throttle_count;
+ unsigned long last_throttle_count;
};
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct thermal_state, thermal_state);
@@ -120,11 +121,12 @@
if (is_throttled)
state->throttle_count++;
- if (!(was_throttled ^ is_throttled) &&
- time_before64(now, state->next_check))
+ if (time_before64(now, state->next_check) &&
+ state->throttle_count != state->last_throttle_count)
return 0;
state->next_check = now + CHECK_INTERVAL;
+ state->last_throttle_count = state->throttle_count;
/* if we just entered the thermal event */
if (is_throttled) {
