The patch titled
printk: fix comment for printk ratelimiting
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
printk-fix-comment-for-printk-ratelimiting.patch
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Subject: printk: fix comment for printk ratelimiting
From: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@xxxxxxxx>
The comment assumed the burst to be one and the ratelimit used to be named
printk_ratelimit_jiffies.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/printk.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN kernel/printk.c~printk-fix-comment-for-printk-ratelimiting kernel/printk.c
--- a/kernel/printk.c~printk-fix-comment-for-printk-ratelimiting
+++ a/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1309,14 +1309,14 @@ void tty_write_message(struct tty_struct
#if defined CONFIG_PRINTK
-DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(printk_ratelimit_state, 5 * HZ, 10);
/*
* printk rate limiting, lifted from the networking subsystem.
*
- * This enforces a rate limit: not more than one kernel message
- * every printk_ratelimit_jiffies to make a denial-of-service
- * attack impossible.
+ * This enforces a rate limit: not more than 10 kernel messages
+ * every 5s to make a denial-of-service attack impossible.
*/
+DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(printk_ratelimit_state, 5 * HZ, 10);
+
int printk_ratelimit(void)
{
return __ratelimit(&printk_ratelimit_state);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@xxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
printk-fix-comment-for-printk-ratelimiting.patch
linux-next.patch
genirq-better-warning-on-irqchip-set_type-failure.patch
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