Re: [PATCH] serial8250: ratelimit "too much work" error

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On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 15:02 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:51:01 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > someone stuck a
> > DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE() in include/linux/kernel.h and it ain't defined
> > anywhere.  Let me fix that up...
> 
> Well that's a PITA.  Can't include ratelimit.h into kernel.h because a)
> it'll slow everyone's compiels down and b) ratelimit.h needs spinlock.h
> which surely needs kernel.h.  Fixable by adding a new
> printk_ratelimit.h and including that from 135 source files, blah.
> 
> I'll give up and pronounce that users of printk_ratelimited() need to
> include ratelimit.h as well.

What I suggested several months ago was to move the
macro definitions to ratelimit.h

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/18/377


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