dma-debug: prevent an error message from causing runtime problems
authorHamza Mahfooz <someguy@effective-light.com>
Fri, 10 Sep 2021 23:53:37 +0000 (19:53 -0400)
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:29:24 +0000 (18:29 +0200)
commit510e1a724ab1bf38150be2c1acabb303f98d0047
tree98a976c8f17734b3345cae69b8f85424f8595066
parenta61cb6017df0a9be072a35259e6e9ae7aa0ef6b3
dma-debug: prevent an error message from causing runtime problems

For some drivers, that use the DMA API. This error message can be reached
several millions of times per second, causing spam to the kernel's printk
buffer and bringing the CPU usage up to 100% (so, it should be rate
limited). However, since there is at least one driver that is in the
mainline and suffers from the error condition, it is more useful to
err_printk() here instead of just rate limiting the error message (in hopes
that it will make it easier for other drivers that suffer from this issue
to be spotted).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd67fbac-64bf-f0ea-01e1-5938ccfab9d0@arm.com
Reported-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hamza Mahfooz <someguy@effective-light.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
kernel/dma/debug.c