When lockd can't talk to a remote statd, it'll spew a warning message to the ring buffer. If the application is really hammering on locks however, it's possible for that message to spam the logs. Ratelimit it to minimize the potential for harm. Reported-by: Ian Collier <imc@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/lockd/mon.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/lockd/mon.c b/fs/lockd/mon.c index 9106f42c472c..1cc6ec51e6b1 100644 --- a/fs/lockd/mon.c +++ b/fs/lockd/mon.c @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ int nsm_monitor(const struct nlm_host *host) if (unlikely(res.status != 0)) status = -EIO; if (unlikely(status < 0)) { - printk(KERN_NOTICE "lockd: cannot monitor %s\n", nsm->sm_name); + pr_notice_ratelimited("lockd: cannot monitor %s\n", nsm->sm_name); return status; } -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html