Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath6kl: Complete failed tx packet in ath6kl_htc_tx_from_queue()

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>]

On 04/27/2012 07:09 AM, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:

>>>   	bus_req = ath6kl_sdio_alloc_busreq(ar_sdio);
>>>
>>> -	if (!bus_req)
>>> +	if (!bus_req) {
>>> +		ath6kl_err("Ran out of bus request buffer for tx\n");
>>>   		return -ENOMEM;
>>> +	}
>>
>> I'm not sure about this one. There's a risk that this will spam the log.
>> Should it be a debug message instead? Or should we have instead
>> ath6kl_err_ratelimit()?
> 
> This condition is very rare, I found it only through code review. I'm 
> pretty sure we don't hit this very often.

I'm not worried how often it happens, I'm just worried that _when_ it
happens the warning might make things worse. For example, I personally
saw a case where flood of warnings prevented watchdog heartbeat from
happening which caused the whole system to reboot. Without the warnings
system would have worked just fine, just a bit more slowly.

Is it ok for you if I change the ath6kl_err() to WARN_ON_ONCE() (or
WARN_ONCE() if you prefer to keep the warning message)? This should be a
rare event anyway.

Kalle