Commit 77006a0a authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

ratelimit: add comment warning people off printk_ratelimit()

printk_ratelimit() was a bad idea - we don't want subsytem A causing
ratelimiting of subsystem B's messages.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f5d87d85
......@@ -277,6 +277,11 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
asmlinkage int printk(const char * fmt, ...)
__attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 2))) __cold;
/*
* Please don't use printk_ratelimit(), because it shares ratelimiting state
* with all other unrelated printk_ratelimit() callsites. Instead use
* printk_ratelimited() or plain old __ratelimit().
*/
extern int __printk_ratelimit(const char *func);
#define printk_ratelimit() __printk_ratelimit(__func__)
extern bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies,
......
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