The patch titled ipmi: don't print event queue full on every event has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ipmi-dont-print-event-queue-full-on-every-event.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ipmi: don't print event queue full on every event From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx> Don't print out that the event queue is full on every event, only print something out when it becomes full or becomes not full. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c~ipmi-dont-print-event-queue-full-on-every-event drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c~ipmi-dont-print-event-queue-full-on-every-event +++ a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c @@ -253,7 +253,8 @@ struct ipmi_smi spinlock_t events_lock; /* For dealing with event stuff. */ struct list_head waiting_events; unsigned int waiting_events_count; /* How many events in queue? */ - int delivering_events; + char delivering_events; + char event_msg_printed; /* The event receiver for my BMC, only really used at panic shutdown as a place to store this. */ @@ -1083,6 +1084,11 @@ int ipmi_set_gets_events(ipmi_user_t use list_for_each_entry_safe(msg, msg2, &intf->waiting_events, link) list_move_tail(&msg->link, &msgs); intf->waiting_events_count = 0; + if (intf->event_msg_printed) { + printk(KERN_WARNING PFX "Event queue no longer" + " full\n"); + intf->event_msg_printed = 0; + } intf->delivering_events = 1; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&intf->events_lock, flags); @@ -3261,11 +3267,12 @@ static int handle_read_event_rsp(ipmi_sm copy_event_into_recv_msg(recv_msg, msg); list_add_tail(&(recv_msg->link), &(intf->waiting_events)); intf->waiting_events_count++; - } else { + } else if (!intf->event_msg_printed) { /* There's too many things in the queue, discard this message. */ - printk(KERN_WARNING PFX "Event queue full, discarding an" - " incoming event\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING PFX "Event queue full, discarding" + " incoming events\n"); + intf->event_msg_printed = 1; } out: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx are git-watchdog.patch ipmi-hold-attn-until-upper-layer-ready.patch ipmi-change-device-node-ordering-to-reflect-probe-order.patch ipmi-run-to-completion-fixes.patch ipmi-run-to-completion-fixes-checkpatch-fixes.patch ipmi-dont-grab-locks-in-run-to-completion-mode.patch ipmi-dont-print-event-queue-full-on-every-event.patch ipmi-update-driver-version.patch ipmi-convert-locked-counters-to-atomics.patch ipmi-convert-locked-counters-to-atomics-in-the-system-interface.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html