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powerpc/powernv: Rate limit opal-elog read failure message

Sometimes we can't read an error log from OPAL, and we print an error
message accordingly. But the OPAL userspace tools seem to like retrying a
lot, in which case we flood the kernel log with a lot of messages.

Change pr_err() to pr_err_ratelimited() to help with this.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211021140.28402-1-ajd@linux.ibm.com

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Andrew Donnellan and committed by
Michael Ellerman
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arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c
··· 171 171 opal_rc = opal_read_elog(__pa(elog->buffer), 172 172 elog->size, elog->id); 173 173 if (opal_rc != OPAL_SUCCESS) { 174 - pr_err("ELOG: log read failed for log-id=%llx\n", 175 - elog->id); 174 + pr_err_ratelimited("ELOG: log read failed for log-id=%llx\n", 175 + elog->id); 176 176 kfree(elog->buffer); 177 177 elog->buffer = NULL; 178 178 return -EIO;