[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] powercap: intel_rapl: Downgrade BIOS locked limits pr_warn() to pr_debug()

Ville Syrjala ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com
Tue Oct 24 19:17:19 UTC 2023


From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>

Before the refactoring the pr_warn() only triggered when
someone explicitly tried to write to a BIOS locked limit.
After the refactoring the warning is also triggering during
system resume. The user can't do anything about this so
printing scary warnings doesn't make sense

Keep the printk but make it pr_debug() instead of pr_warn()
to make it clear it's not a serious issue.

Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang at intel.com>
Cc: Wang Wendy <wendy.wang at intel.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada at intel.com>
Fixes: 9050a9cd5e4c ("powercap: intel_rapl: Cleanup Power Limits support")
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/powercap/intel_rapl_common.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl_common.c b/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl_common.c
index 40a2cc649c79..2feed036c1cd 100644
--- a/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl_common.c
+++ b/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl_common.c
@@ -892,7 +892,7 @@ static int rapl_write_pl_data(struct rapl_domain *rd, int pl,
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (rd->rpl[pl].locked) {
-		pr_warn("%s:%s:%s locked by BIOS\n", rd->rp->name, rd->name, pl_names[pl]);
+		pr_debug("%s:%s:%s locked by BIOS\n", rd->rp->name, rd->name, pl_names[pl]);
 		return -EACCES;
 	}
 
-- 
2.41.0



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