This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: usb-audio: Suppress repetitive debug messages from retire_playback_urb() to the 3.14-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: alsa-usb-audio-suppress-repetitive-debug-messages-from-retire_playback_urb.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a5065eb6da55b226661456e6a7435f605df98111 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:30:44 -0600 Subject: ALSA: usb-audio: Suppress repetitive debug messages from retire_playback_urb() From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit a5065eb6da55b226661456e6a7435f605df98111 upstream. BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1305133 Malfunctioning or slow devices can cause a flood of dmesg SPAM. I've ignored checkpatch.pl complaints about the use of printk_ratelimit() in favour of prior art in sound/usb/pcm.c. WARNING: Prefer printk_ratelimited or pr_<level>_ratelimited to printk_ratelimit + if (printk_ratelimit() && Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Cc: Eldad Zack <eldad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Mack <zonque@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/usb/pcm.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/sound/usb/pcm.c +++ b/sound/usb/pcm.c @@ -1487,7 +1487,8 @@ static void retire_playback_urb(struct s * The error should be lower than 2ms since the estimate relies * on two reads of a counter updated every ms. */ - if (abs(est_delay - subs->last_delay) * 1000 > runtime->rate * 2) + if (printk_ratelimit() && + abs(est_delay - subs->last_delay) * 1000 > runtime->rate * 2) snd_printk(KERN_DEBUG "delay: estimated %d, actual %d\n", est_delay, subs->last_delay); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/alsa-usb-audio-suppress-repetitive-debug-messages-from-retire_playback_urb.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html