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

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sun, Nov 08, 2026 at 02:37:51PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> FCommit ea324444ece9f moved the "Machine check events logged"
> print from mce_notify_irq() into mce_log() and dropped its
> two-per-minute rate limit as a side effect.
> 
> A particularly unhappy system can spew out around 100 million
> of those "Machine check events logged" messages every hour,
> without that rate limit. A large fleet may have several unhappy
> systems, leaving the netcons infrastructure somewhat flustered.

I need more info here. How are you running those systems?

Usually, correctable errors are consumed by the CEC and you don't see
anything. So you must be doing something else.

.config and dmesg pls.

Thx.

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