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Re: [PATCH] ASoC: fsl_esai: Remove expensive print in irq handler

From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-04-21 09:51:47
Also in: alsa-devel, lkml

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 04:41:23PM +0800, Shengjiu Wang wrote:
Use dev_dbg instead of dev_err in irq handler, the dev_err
is expensive, we don't need the message to be printed everytime,
which is almost a debug option.
 	if (esr & ESAI_ESR_RFF_MASK)
-		dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "isr: Receiving overrun\n");
+		dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "isr: Receiving overrun\n");
 
 	if (esr & ESAI_ESR_TFE_MASK)
-		dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "isr: Transmission underrun\n");
+		dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "isr: Transmission underrun\n");
These are error messages which would suggest a problem that'd lead to
data corruption, it seems bad not to try to flag that to the user -
surely we've got bigger problems than performance if this happens?
Perhaps convert to a ratelimited print if the issue is that when errors
happen they happen a lot?

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