On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 17:46:45 +0100 Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is the typical message you get if you plug in a CPU
> which is newer than your BIOS. It's annoying seeing this
> message for each core.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c | 12 ++++++------
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
> index 9accffb..9e312c5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c
> @@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ static int find_psb_table(struct powernow_k8_data *data)
> * BIOS and Kernel Developer's Guide, which is available on
> * www.amd.com
> */
> - printk(KERN_ERR PFX "BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects\n");
> + printk(KERN_ERR FW_BUG PFX "No PSB or ACPI _PSS objects\n");
> return -ENODEV;
> }
>
> @@ -1154,11 +1154,11 @@ static int __cpuinit powernowk8_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *pol)
> * an UP version, and is deprecated by AMD.
> */
> if (num_online_cpus() != 1) {
> - printk(KERN_ERR FW_BUG PFX "Your BIOS does not provide"
> - " ACPI _PSS objects in a way that Linux "
> - "understands. Please report this to the Linux "
> - "ACPI maintainers and complain to your BIOS "
> - "vendor.\n");
> + WARN_ONCE(1, KERN_ERR FW_BUG PFX "Your BIOS does not "
> + "provide ACPI _PSS objects in a way that "
> + "Linux understands. Please report this to "
> + "the Linux ACPI maintainers and complain to "
> + "your BIOS vendor.\n");
> goto err_out;
> }
> if (pol->cpu != 0) {
WARN_ONCE will also spew a stack backtrace, which seems inappropriate here.
There was talk of writing a simple ONCE() macro for this sort of thing:
if (ONCE())
printk(...)
but it never happened.
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