Prevent excessive logging by rate limiting the "rejecting I/O" messages. For example in setups where remote syslog is used the link is saturated by those messages when a storage controller/disk misbehaves. Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <dwagner@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 4 ++-- include/scsi/scsi_device.h | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c index 47835c4b4ee0..01c35c58c6f3 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@ scsi_prep_state_check(struct scsi_device *sdev, struct request *req) */ if (!sdev->offline_already) { sdev->offline_already = true; - sdev_printk(KERN_ERR, sdev, + sdev_printk_ratelimited(KERN_ERR, sdev, "rejecting I/O to offline device\n"); } return BLK_STS_IOERR; @@ -1226,7 +1226,7 @@ scsi_prep_state_check(struct scsi_device *sdev, struct request *req) * If the device is fully deleted, we refuse to * process any commands as well. */ - sdev_printk(KERN_ERR, sdev, + sdev_printk_ratelimited(KERN_ERR, sdev, "rejecting I/O to dead device\n"); return BLK_STS_IOERR; case SDEV_BLOCK: diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h index c3cba2aaf934..8be40b0e1b8f 100644 --- a/include/scsi/scsi_device.h +++ b/include/scsi/scsi_device.h @@ -257,6 +257,16 @@ sdev_prefix_printk(const char *, const struct scsi_device *, const char *, #define sdev_printk(l, sdev, fmt, a...) \ sdev_prefix_printk(l, sdev, NULL, fmt, ##a) +#define sdev_printk_ratelimited(l, sdev, fmt, a...) \ +({ \ + static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(_rs, \ + DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL, \ + DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST); \ + \ + if (__ratelimit(&_rs)) \ + sdev_prefix_printk(l, sdev, NULL, fmt, ##a); \ +}) + __printf(3, 4) void scmd_printk(const char *, const struct scsi_cmnd *, const char *, ...); -- 2.16.4