> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-kernel- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack Wang > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 8:21 AM > Subject: [PATCH] block: ratelimite pr_err on IO path > > From: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ... > - pr_err("%s: ref tag error at location %llu " \ > - "(rcvd %u)\n", iter->disk_name, > - (unsigned long long) > - iter->seed, be32_to_cpu(pi->ref_tag)); > + pr_err_ratelimited("%s: ref tag error at " > + "location %llu (rcvd %u)\n", Per process/coding-style.rst, you should keep a string like that on one line even if that exceeds 80 columns: Statements longer than 80 columns will be broken into sensible chunks, unless exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does not hide information. ... However, never break user-visible strings such as printk messages, because that breaks the ability to grep for them.