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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-22 14:44:11 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-22 14:05:48 +0200
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ratelimit: Fix/allow use in atomic contexts
I'd like to use printk_ratelimit() in NMI context, but it's not robust right now due to spinlock usage in lib/ratelimit.c. If an NMI is unlucky enough to hit just that spot we might lock up trying to take the spinlock again. Fix that by using a trylock variant. If we contend on that lock we can genuinely skip the message because the state is just being accessed by another CPU (or by this CPU). ( We could use atomics for the suppressed messages field, but i doubt it matters in practice and it makes the code heavier. ) Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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