Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] ratelimit: Fix return value when fail to getlock

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Mar 22 2010 - 16:08:05 EST


On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:58:44 +0800
Yong Zhang <yong.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >From log of commit edaac8e3167501cda336231d00611bf59c164346,
> It seems that we want to suppress the callback when trylock
> fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/ratelimit.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/ratelimit.c b/lib/ratelimit.c
> index 29a10b3..358638f 100644
> --- a/lib/ratelimit.c
> +++ b/lib/ratelimit.c
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ int ___ratelimit(struct ratelimit_state *rs, const char *func)
> * the entity that is holding the lock already:
> */
> if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&rs->lock, flags))
> - return 1;
> + return 0;
>
> if (!rs->begin)
> rs->begin = jiffies;

Looks right to me. I queued all three patches for 2.6.34.
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