The patch titled drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c: ratelimit a warning printk has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-block-aoe-aoeblkc-ratelimit-a-warning-printk.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c: ratelimit a warning printk From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> As described in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19922 : I had an AoE device go down overnight, and while a server was trying to : write to it, it was also writing this message to its logs: : : 209 printk(KERN_INFO "aoe: device %ld.%d is not up\n", : 210 d->aoemajor, d->aoeminor); : : The message appeared many times per second, and over several hours : produced about 7.5 gigabytes of log files, filling up all free space on : the root filesystem. Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Roman Mamedov <roman@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c~drivers-block-aoe-aoeblkc-ratelimit-a-warning-printk drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c~drivers-block-aoe-aoeblkc-ratelimit-a-warning-printk +++ a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c @@ -4,12 +4,14 @@ * block device routines */ +#include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/hdreg.h> #include <linux/blkdev.h> #include <linux/backing-dev.h> #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/ioctl.h> #include <linux/slab.h> +#include <linux/ratelimit.h> #include <linux/genhd.h> #include <linux/netdevice.h> #include <linux/mutex.h> @@ -207,7 +209,7 @@ aoeblk_make_request(struct request_queue spin_lock_irqsave(&d->lock, flags); if ((d->flags & DEVFL_UP) == 0) { - printk(KERN_INFO "aoe: device %ld.%d is not up\n", + pr_info_ratelimited("aoe: device %ld.%d is not up\n", d->aoemajor, d->aoeminor); 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