This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/msm: Ratelimit invalid-fence message
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
drm-msm-ratelimit-invalid-fence-message.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 320d154bf1f6ae1986921d478058019b978b1df1
Author: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Mar 17 09:40:38 2021 -0700
drm/msm: Ratelimit invalid-fence message
[ Upstream commit 7ad48d27a2846bfda29214fb454d001c3e02b9e7 ]
We have seen a couple cases where low memory situations cause something
bad to happen, followed by a flood of these messages obscuring the root
cause. Lets ratelimit the dmesg spam so that next time it happens we
don't lose the kernel traces leading up to this.
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_fence.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_fence.c
index a9b9b1c95a2e..9dbd17be51f7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_fence.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_fence.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ int msm_wait_fence(struct msm_fence_context *fctx, uint32_t fence,
int ret;
if (fence > fctx->last_fence) {
- DRM_ERROR("%s: waiting on invalid fence: %u (of %u)\n",
+ DRM_ERROR_RATELIMITED("%s: waiting on invalid fence: %u (of %u)\n",
fctx->name, fence, fctx->last_fence);
return -EINVAL;
}
