linux-kernel - [PATCH] hv_balloon: rate-limit "Unhandled message" warning

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Message-Id: <20220222141400.98160-1-anssi.hannula@bitwise.fi>
Date:   Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:14:00 +0200
From:   Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@...wise.fi>
To:     "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] hv_balloon: rate-limit "Unhandled message" warning

For a couple of times I have encountered a situation where

  hv_balloon: Unhandled message: type: 12447

is being flooded over 1 million times per second with various values,
filling the log and consuming cycles, making debugging difficult.

Add rate limiting to the message.

Most other Hyper-V drivers already have similar rate limiting in their
message callbacks.

The cause of the floods in my case was probably fixed by 96d9d1fa5cd5
("Drivers: hv: balloon: account for vmbus packet header in
max_pkt_size").

Fixes: 9aa8b50b2b3d ("Drivers: hv: Add Hyper-V balloon driver")
Signed-off-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@...wise.fi>
---
 drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
index f2d05bff4245..439f99b8b5de 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
@@ -1563,7 +1563,7 @@ static void balloon_onchannelcallback(void *context)
 			break;
 
 		default:
-			pr_warn("Unhandled message: type: %d\n", dm_hdr->type);
+			pr_warn_ratelimited("Unhandled message: type: %d\n", dm_hdr->type);
 
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.34.1