Re: [PATCH -v2.1] x86/msr: Filter MSR writes

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Jul 14 2020 - 12:58:07 EST


On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 09:46:12AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Maybe we just need smarter filtering of warnings. It doesn't
> seem at all useful to warn for the same MSR 1000's of times.
> Maybe keep a count of warnings for each MSR and just stop
> all reports when reach a threshold?

No, not stop - just make them more rare.

And this is where the bikeshedding starts about how rare.

/me runs away to the beach and lets the others fight it out.

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