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mm: ratelimit min_free_kbytes adjustment messages
authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:33:59 +0000 (08:33 -0700)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 5 Apr 2026 20:53:27 +0000 (13:53 -0700)
commit3203a8706e81b8d73712d46952b96eb28238c45e
tree4c63261db83ec2e1ac26e9a211aa7b7d5e5876ea
parent35a01d94420e1c2b5b1b421d1471ae33f48ae13a
mm: ratelimit min_free_kbytes adjustment messages

The "raising min_free_kbytes" pr_info message in
set_recommended_min_free_kbytes() and the "min_free_kbytes is not updated
to" pr_warn in calculate_min_free_kbytes() can spam the kernel log when
called repeatedly.

Switch the pr_info in set_recommended_min_free_kbytes() and the pr_warn in
calculate_min_free_kbytes() to their _ratelimited variants to prevent the
log spam for this message.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260317-thp_logs-v7-4-31eb98fa5a8b@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/khugepaged.c
mm/page_alloc.c