linux-kernel - [PATCH] dmaengine: idxd: rate limit printk in misc interrupt thread

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Message-Id: <20230924002347.1117757-1-fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Date:   Sat, 23 Sep 2023 17:23:47 -0700
From:   Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
To:     "Vinod Koul" <vkoul@...nel.org>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Sanjay Kumar <sanjay.k.kumar@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH] dmaengine: idxd: rate limit printk in misc interrupt thread

From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>

Add rate limit to the dev_warn() call in the misc interrupt thread. This
limits dmesg getting spammed if a descriptor submitter is spamming bad
descriptors with invalid completion records and resulting the errors being
continuously reported by the misc interrupt handling thread.

Reported-by: Sanjay Kumar <sanjay.k.kumar@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
---

This patch was sent to dmaengine mailing list before:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/165125377735.312075.15715853788802098990.stgit@djiang5-desk3.ch.intel.com/
But it hasn't be merged into upstream yet. Add my Reviewed-by tag
and re-send it. No code or commit message change.

 drivers/dma/idxd/irq.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/idxd/irq.c b/drivers/dma/idxd/irq.c
index 041be6a4dec4..8e895a1e1881 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/idxd/irq.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/idxd/irq.c
@@ -430,8 +430,8 @@ irqreturn_t idxd_misc_thread(int vec, void *data)
 		val |= IDXD_INTC_ERR;

 		for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
-			dev_warn(dev, "err[%d]: %#16.16llx\n",
-				 i, idxd->sw_err.bits[i]);
+			dev_warn_ratelimited(dev, "err[%d]: %#16.16llx\n",
+					     i, idxd->sw_err.bits[i]);
 		err = true;
 	}

-- 
2.32.0