4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ [ Upstream commit 43636c804df0126da669c261fc820fb22f62bfc2 ] When something let __find_get_block_slow() hit all_mapped path, it calls printk() for 100+ times per a second. But there is no need to print same message with such high frequency; it is just asking for stall warning, or at least bloating log files. [ 399.866302][T15342] __find_get_block_slow() failed. block=1, b_blocknr=8 [ 399.873324][T15342] b_state=0x00000029, b_size=512 [ 399.878403][T15342] device loop0 blocksize: 4096 [ 399.883296][T15342] __find_get_block_slow() failed. block=1, b_blocknr=8 [ 399.890400][T15342] b_state=0x00000029, b_size=512 [ 399.895595][T15342] device loop0 blocksize: 4096 [ 399.900556][T15342] __find_get_block_slow() failed. block=1, b_blocknr=8 [ 399.907471][T15342] b_state=0x00000029, b_size=512 [ 399.912506][T15342] device loop0 blocksize: 4096 This patch reduces frequency to up to once per a second, in addition to concatenating three lines into one. [ 399.866302][T15342] __find_get_block_slow() failed. block=1, b_blocknr=8, b_state=0x00000029, b_size=512, device loop0 blocksize: 4096 Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/buffer.c | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 6f1ae3ac9789..c083c4b3c1e7 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ __find_get_block_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block) struct buffer_head *head; struct page *page; int all_mapped = 1; + static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(last_warned, HZ, 1); index = block >> (PAGE_SHIFT - bd_inode->i_blkbits); page = find_get_page_flags(bd_mapping, index, FGP_ACCESSED); @@ -227,15 +228,15 @@ __find_get_block_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block) * file io on the block device and getblk. It gets dealt with * elsewhere, don't buffer_error if we had some unmapped buffers */ - if (all_mapped) { - printk("__find_get_block_slow() failed. " - "block=%llu, b_blocknr=%llu\n", - (unsigned long long)block, - (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr); - printk("b_state=0x%08lx, b_size=%zu\n", - bh->b_state, bh->b_size); - printk("device %pg blocksize: %d\n", bdev, - 1 << bd_inode->i_blkbits); + ratelimit_set_flags(&last_warned, RATELIMIT_MSG_ON_RELEASE); + if (all_mapped && __ratelimit(&last_warned)) { + printk("__find_get_block_slow() failed. block=%llu, " + "b_blocknr=%llu, b_state=0x%08lx, b_size=%zu, " + "device %pg blocksize: %d\n", + (unsigned long long)block, + (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr, + bh->b_state, bh->b_size, bdev, + 1 << bd_inode->i_blkbits); } out_unlock: spin_unlock(&bd_mapping->private_lock); -- 2.19.1