Commit f46c4833 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Add printk_timed_ratelimit()

printk_ratelimit() has global state which makes it not useful for callers
which wish to perform ratelimiting at a particular frequency.

Add a printk_timed_ratelimit() which utilises caller-provided state storage to
permit more flexibility.

This function can in fact be used for things other than printk ratelimiting
and is perhaps poorly named.

Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 7f6b8876
......@@ -171,6 +171,8 @@ __attribute_const__ roundup_pow_of_two(unsigned long x)
extern int printk_ratelimit(void);
extern int __printk_ratelimit(int ratelimit_jiffies, int ratelimit_burst);
extern bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies,
unsigned int interval_msec);
static inline void console_silent(void)
{
......
......@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/bootmem.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
......@@ -1101,3 +1102,23 @@ int printk_ratelimit(void)
printk_ratelimit_burst);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(printk_ratelimit);
/**
* printk_timed_ratelimit - caller-controlled printk ratelimiting
* @caller_jiffies: pointer to caller's state
* @interval_msecs: minimum interval between prints
*
* printk_timed_ratelimit() returns true if more than @interval_msecs
* milliseconds have elapsed since the last time printk_timed_ratelimit()
* returned true.
*/
bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies,
unsigned int interval_msecs)
{
if (*caller_jiffies == 0 || time_after(jiffies, *caller_jiffies)) {
*caller_jiffies = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(interval_msecs);
return true;
}
return false;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(printk_timed_ratelimit);
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