[PATCH] mm: ratelimit PFNs busy info message

From: Jonathan Toppins
Date: Wed Aug 02 2017 - 13:45:15 EST


The RDMA subsystem can generate several thousand of these messages per
second eventually leading to a kernel crash. Ratelimit these messages
to prevent this crash.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 6d30e914afb6..07b7d3060b21 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -7666,7 +7666,7 @@ int alloc_contig_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,

/* Make sure the range is really isolated. */
if (test_pages_isolated(outer_start, end, false)) {
- pr_info("%s: [%lx, %lx) PFNs busy\n",
+ pr_info_ratelimited("%s: [%lx, %lx) PFNs busy\n",
__func__, outer_start, end);
ret = -EBUSY;
goto done;
--
2.10.2