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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] pSeries: Add hooks to put the CPU into an
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Hi Gautham,

> +	call_status = rtas_call(rtas_token("ibm,get-system-parameter"), 3, 1,
> +				NULL,
> +				CEDE_LATENCY_TOKEN,
> +				__pa(cede_parameters),
> +				CEDE_LATENCY_PARAM_MAX_LENGTH);
> +
> +	if (call_status != 0)
> +		printk(KERN_INFO "CEDE_LATENCY: \
> +			%s %s Error calling get-system-parameter(0x%x)\n",
> +			__FILE__, __func__, call_status);
> +	else
> +		printk(KERN_INFO "CEDE_LATENCY: \
> +			get-system-parameter successful.\n");

I'm seeing this on a POWER6 box:


CEDE_LATENCY: 			arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c parse_cede_parameters Error calling get-system-parameter(0xfffffffd)


Seems overly verbose. Do we need to print success/fail on this call? Perhaps
a summary line if anything during initialisation failed:

Cede latency not supported

and

Cede latency supported

If it all worked.

Anton