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From: keith.busch@intel.com (Keith Busch)
Subject: [PATCH] nvme/pci: Print invalid SGL only once
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:17:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170915151713.GD8878@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170915145553.GA1147@lst.de>

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017@04:55:53PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017@03:06:14PM -0400, Keith Busch wrote:
> > The WARN_ONCE macro returns true if the condition is true, not if the
> > warn was raised, so we're printing the scatter list every time it's
> > invalid. This is excessive and makes debugging harder, so this patch
> > prints it just once.
> 
> Please use the printk_ratelimited() helper instead.

Hmm, I don't want to rate limit the prints. That may log only partial
SGLs, or even worse, interleave parts from multiple errors. We want
to see an entire SGL for a single error, like what WARN_ONCE does.
A single occurrence is usually sufficient to work backwards to see how
the breakage occurred.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-15 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-14 19:06 [PATCH] nvme/pci: Print invalid SGL only once Keith Busch
2017-09-15  7:36 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-15 14:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-15 15:17   ` Keith Busch [this message]
2017-09-15 15:44     ` Keith Busch
2017-09-15 15:42       ` Christoph Hellwig

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