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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, xemul@openvz.org,
	yhlu.kernel@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	macro@linux-mips.org, andi@firstfloor.org
Subject: Re: [rfc 1/4] x86: irq.c - tiny cleanup
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:53:04 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090412175304.GC6942@lenovo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090412172536.GB26459@elte.hu>

[Ingo Molnar - Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 07:25:36PM +0200]
| 
| * Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> wrote:
| 
| > Impact: cleanup
| > 
| > 1) guard ack_bad_irq with printk_ratelimit since there is no
| >    guarantee we will not be flooded one day
| > 2) use pr_emerg helper
| > 
... 
| Btw, this is not so theoretical - in the past i've had bugs where a 
| flood of these messages made the system unusable. (granted, it would 
| have been unusable even with rate-limiting - but it's still nice to 
| have a throttle in place for something like this.)
| 
| 	Ingo
| 

I bet the only benefit is that a user will have
some time to pull out camera and snap screen
before it's scrolled with bad irq messages :)

        Cyrill

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-12 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-12 16:47 [rfc 0/4] x86 - apic dummy ops with cleanups Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-04-12 16:47 ` [rfc 1/4] x86: irq.c - tiny cleanup Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-04-12 17:25   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-12 17:53     ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2009-04-12 17:57   ` [tip:x86/apic] " tip-bot for Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-04-12 16:47 ` [rfc 2/4] x86: apic - introduce imcr_ helpers Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-04-12 17:57   ` [tip:x86/apic] " tip-bot for Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-04-12 16:47 ` [rfc 3/4] x86: apic - introduce dummy apic operations Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-04-12 17:57   ` [tip:x86/apic] " tip-bot for Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-04-12 16:47 ` [rfc 4/4] x86: smp.c - align smp_ops assignments Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-04-12 17:58   ` [tip:x86/apic] " tip-bot for Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-04-12 17:24 ` [rfc 0/4] x86 - apic dummy ops with cleanups Ingo Molnar
2009-04-12 18:00   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-04-12 18:02     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-12 18:12       ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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