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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2009-01-06 14:40:12 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-06 15:59:07 -0800
commitd936cf9b39b06c8d2e0d7fb5e7b4f176e18dec69 (patch)
treedb691451bc77e90b980b62674519731c6ece72db /mm/memory.c
parentedc315fd222497ae4f4b959a9e31ada1e68a4755 (diff)
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badpage: ratelimit print_bad_pte and bad_page
print_bad_pte() and bad_page() might each need ratelimiting - especially for their dump_stacks, almost never of interest, yet not quite dispensible. Correlating corruption across neighbouring entries can be very helpful, so allow a burst of 60 reports before keeping quiet for the remainder of that minute (or allow a steady drip of one report per second). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
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1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 0f9abbaf618c..b12888c1b4e3 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -383,6 +383,29 @@ static void print_bad_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
struct address_space *mapping;
pgoff_t index;
+ static unsigned long resume;
+ static unsigned long nr_shown;
+ static unsigned long nr_unshown;
+
+ /*
+ * Allow a burst of 60 reports, then keep quiet for that minute;
+ * or allow a steady drip of one report per second.
+ */
+ if (nr_shown == 60) {
+ if (time_before(jiffies, resume)) {
+ nr_unshown++;
+ return;
+ }
+ if (nr_unshown) {
+ printk(KERN_EMERG
+ "Bad page map: %lu messages suppressed\n",
+ nr_unshown);
+ nr_unshown = 0;
+ }
+ nr_shown = 0;
+ }
+ if (nr_shown++ == 0)
+ resume = jiffies + 60 * HZ;
mapping = vma->vm_file ? vma->vm_file->f_mapping : NULL;
index = linear_page_index(vma, addr);
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