From 5c828713358cb9df8aa174371edcbbb62203a490 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Borntraeger Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:58:11 +0200 Subject: ratelimit: Make suppressed output messages more useful Today I got: [39648.224782] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX [40676.545099] __ratelimit: 246 callbacks suppressed [40676.545103] abcdef[23675]: segfault at 0 ... as you can see the ratelimit message contains a function prefix. Since this is always __ratelimit, this wont help much. This patch changes __ratelimit and printk_ratelimit to print the function name that calls ratelimit. This will pinpoint the responsible function, as long as not several different places call ratelimit with the same ratelimit state at the same time. In that case we catch only one random function that calls ratelimit after the wait period. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Dave Young Cc: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton LKML-Reference: <200910231458.11832.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/printk.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/printk.c') diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index b997c893cdcf..8283dbe15af4 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -1364,11 +1364,11 @@ late_initcall(disable_boot_consoles); */ DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(printk_ratelimit_state, 5 * HZ, 10); -int printk_ratelimit(void) +int __printk_ratelimit(const char *func) { - return __ratelimit(&printk_ratelimit_state); + return ___ratelimit(&printk_ratelimit_state, func); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(printk_ratelimit); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__printk_ratelimit); /** * printk_timed_ratelimit - caller-controlled printk ratelimiting -- cgit v1.2.3