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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial8250: ratelimit "too much work" error
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:59:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1286233169.10512.85.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101004152102.1e04f30a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 15:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:10:59 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 15:02 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:51:01 -0700
> > > Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > I'll give up and pronounce that users of printk_ratelimited() need to
> > > include ratelimit.h as well.
> > What I suggested several months ago was to move the
> > macro definitions to ratelimit.h
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/18/377
> That's a bit nasty because at present ratelimit.h is purely about
> ratelimiting and knowns nothing about any of its clients.  At present
> it has only one client (printk), but it could have more in the future!

Look at the structure, it's very specific to
message logging functionality.

struct ratelimit_state {
	spinlock_t	lock;		/* protect the state */

	int		interval;
	int		burst;
	int		printed;
	int		missed;
	unsigned long	begin;
};

I think it's likely that the current ratelimit
will not be used for any other function.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-04 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-02 11:04 [PATCH] serial8250: ratelimit "too much work" error Daniel Drake
2010-10-02 14:22 ` Alan Cox
2010-10-04 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-04 22:02   ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-04 22:10     ` Joe Perches
2010-10-04 22:21       ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-04 22:59         ` Joe Perches [this message]
2010-10-04 23:11           ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-04 23:34             ` Joe Perches
2010-10-04 23:49               ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-05  0:26                 ` Joe Perches

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