linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] habanalabs: add rate-limit to an error message

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Date:   Fri, 7 Jun 2019 11:08:22 +0300
From:   Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     "Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] habanalabs: add rate-limit to an error message

On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 9:54 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2019-06-06 at 15:20 +0300, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> > This patch changes the print of an error message about mis-configuration
> > of the debug infrastructure to be rate-limited, to prevent flooding of
> > kernel log, as these configuration requests can come at a high rate.
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/habanalabs_ioctl.c b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/habanalabs_ioctl.c
> []
> > @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ static int hl_debug_ioctl(struct hl_fpriv *hpriv, void *data)
> >       case HL_DEBUG_OP_SPMU:
> >       case HL_DEBUG_OP_TIMESTAMP:
> >               if (!hdev->in_debug) {
> > -                     dev_err(hdev->dev,
> > +                     dev_err_ratelimited(hdev->dev,
> >                               "Rejecting debug configuration request because device not in debug mode\n");
> >                       return -EFAULT;
> >               }
>
> Perhaps this should be dev_dbg
>
>
But this a basic error. I prefer to give visibility to the user in such a case.

Thanks,
Oded