Re: [PATCH] x86/mce: Restore rate limit on MCE logged message

From: Rik van Riel

Date: Mon Nov 09 2026 - 16:33:27 EST


On Mon, 2026-11-09 at 13:23 -0800, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2026 at 03:12:43PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > There are a dozen or so "mce: MCE records pool full!"
> > lines, and then two of these:
> > "mce_gen_pool_add: <bignum> callbacks suppressed"
>
> Sounds to me like you getting errors logged and there's no userspace
> consumer
> at all.
>
> What is your fleet policy about collecting and logging hw errors?
>
> Do you even care about them?

We definitely care about them. Errors are used
to figure out which hosts need to be repaired.

I do not know how exactly memory errors are getting
collected. There are some tools that watch netcons,
some that collect data on the host, and some that
grab data off the BMC. I have no idea which of
those paths the memory error collection uses.

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