From: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:01:27 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] rate limiting for the ldisc open failure messages
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc1~679
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4050914f7c2665736a82265a029466071a90094e;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

[PATCH] rate limiting for the ldisc open failure messages

This patch limits the messages when ldisc open faulures happen.  It happens
under memory pressure.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index 6354373197784..333741770f1e0 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -2065,8 +2065,9 @@ fail_no_mem:
 
 	/* call the tty release_mem routine to clean out this slot */
 release_mem_out:
-	printk(KERN_INFO "init_dev: ldisc open failed, "
-			 "clearing slot %d\n", idx);
+	if (printk_ratelimit())
+		printk(KERN_INFO "init_dev: ldisc open failed, "
+				 "clearing slot %d\n", idx);
 	release_mem(tty, idx);
 	goto end_init;
 }