RE: [PATCH] block: ratelimite pr_err on IO path

From: Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
Date: Wed Apr 11 2018 - 13:07:41 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-kernel-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack Wang
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 8:21 AM
> Subject: [PATCH] block: ratelimite pr_err on IO path
>
> From: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
...
> - pr_err("%s: ref tag error at location %llu " \
> - "(rcvd %u)\n", iter->disk_name,
> - (unsigned long long)
> - iter->seed, be32_to_cpu(pi->ref_tag));
> + pr_err_ratelimited("%s: ref tag error at "
> + "location %llu (rcvd %u)\n",

Per process/coding-style.rst, you should keep a string like that on
one line even if that exceeds 80 columns:

Statements longer than 80 columns will be broken into sensible chunks, unless
exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does not hide
information. ... However, never break user-visible strings such as
printk messages, because that breaks the ability to grep for them.