linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial8250: ratelimit "too much work" error

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Date:	Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:59:29 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...top.org>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial8250: ratelimit "too much work" error

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 15:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:10:59 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 15:02 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:51:01 -0700
> > > Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > I'll give up and pronounce that users of printk_ratelimited() need to
> > > include ratelimit.h as well.
> > What I suggested several months ago was to move the
> > macro definitions to ratelimit.h
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/18/377
> That's a bit nasty because at present ratelimit.h is purely about
> ratelimiting and knowns nothing about any of its clients.  At present
> it has only one client (printk), but it could have more in the future!

Look at the structure, it's very specific to
message logging functionality.

struct ratelimit_state {
	spinlock_t	lock;		/* protect the state */

	int		interval;
	int		burst;
	int		printed;
	int		missed;
	unsigned long	begin;
};

I think it's likely that the current ratelimit
will not be used for any other function.


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