On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 11:23:18AM -0800, Yu, Yu-cheng wrote:
> exc_general_protection() and do_trap() both call show_signal(), which
> then calls printk_ratelimit().
You could've done some git archeology and could've found
abd4f7505baf ("x86: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3")
which explains why that ratelimiting is needed.
> For example, if a shell script, in a loop re-starts an app when it
> exits, and the app is causing control-protection fault. The log
> messages should be rate limited.
I think you should be able to get where I'm going with this, by now:
please put a comment over the ratelimiting to explain why it is there,
just like the above commit explains.
Thx.
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