linux-kernel - Re: tty_init_dev: 24 callbacks suppressed

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Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2012 13:23:47 +0200
From:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tty_init_dev: 24 callbacks suppressed

On 2012.10.04 at 11:20 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm seeing this on today's Linus tree:
> 
> [   24.048278] tty_init_dev: 24 callbacks suppressed
> [   45.630349] tty_init_dev: 3 callbacks suppressed
> 
> It is either from that WARN_RATELIMIT thing or the printk_ratelimited
> further below in tty_init_dev but I don't know for sure because the
> actual text message from both printk's doesn't come out in dmesg - only
> that something got suppressed.
> 
> And it quiets down later, after the machine has finished booting. Still,
> this doesn't tell me anything about any issue. So what's up?

I'm seeing the same thing.
This can be fixed by a slightly modified version of:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1339221/


diff --git a/include/linux/ratelimit.h b/include/linux/ratelimit.h
index e11ccb4..2d02461 100644
--- a/include/linux/ratelimit.h
+++ b/include/linux/ratelimit.h
@@ -46,20 +46,17 @@ extern int ___ratelimit(struct ratelimit_state *rs, const char *func);
 #define WARN_ON_RATELIMIT(condition, state)			\
 		WARN_ON((condition) && __ratelimit(state))
 
-#define __WARN_RATELIMIT(condition, state, format...)		\
-({								\
-	int rtn = 0;						\
-	if (unlikely(__ratelimit(state)))			\
-		rtn = WARN(condition, format);			\
-	rtn;							\
-})
-
-#define WARN_RATELIMIT(condition, format...)			\
+#define WARN_RATELIMIT(condition, state, fmt, ...)			\
 ({								\
 	static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(_rs,			\
 				      DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL,	\
 				      DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);	\
-	__WARN_RATELIMIT(condition, &_rs, format);		\
+	int rtn = !!(condition);				\
+								\
+	if (unlikely(rtn && __ratelimit(state)))		\
+		WARN(rtn, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__);			\
+								\
+	rtn;							\
 })
 
 #else
@@ -67,15 +64,9 @@ extern int ___ratelimit(struct ratelimit_state *rs, const char *func);
 #define WARN_ON_RATELIMIT(condition, state)			\
 	WARN_ON(condition)
 
-#define __WARN_RATELIMIT(condition, state, format...)		\
-({								\
-	int rtn = WARN(condition, format);			\
-	rtn;							\
-})
-
-#define WARN_RATELIMIT(condition, format...)			\
+#define WARN_RATELIMIT(condition, fmt, ...)			\
 ({								\
-	int rtn = WARN(condition, format);			\
+	int rtn = WARN(condition, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__);		\
 	rtn;							\
 })
 
-- 
Markus
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