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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: suppress bogus log message
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 13:42:31 +0000
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On 26/11/15 13:27, Jan Beulich wrote:
> The way we populate mpc_cpufeature is not compatible with modern CPUs,
> and hence the message printed using that information is useless/bogus.
> It's of interest only anyway when not using ACPI, so move it into MPS
> parsing code. This at once significantly reduces boot time logging on
> huge systems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

I have been looking to find the time to reduce the volume of boot
logging like this, as it is predominantly noise.  This is a very good start.