Re: [PATCH -v3 1/2] ratelimit: Extend to print suppressed messages on release

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Tue Jul 05 2016 - 17:15:44 EST




On 05/07/2016 22:53, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Yes, this is new in next. As far as I can see, the new message would only
> appear if we would call ratelimit_state_exit. Correct? We do not call this -
> I assume this is ok?
>
> We really only want to reuse the rate limit base code (to avoid writing the same
> code twice) and being in lib indicated that this can indeed be used outside
> printk.
> Now: your patch 1 would allow me to get rid of the messages completely
> by setting the flag and by not calling ratelimit_state_exit. Which is probably
> what we should do in our code.

Can we delay fixing this after the code is merged in Linus's tree?

Paolo