dm integrity: limit the rate of error messages
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Wed, 6 Mar 2019 13:29:34 +0000 (08:29 -0500)
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Wed, 6 Mar 2019 14:03:00 +0000 (09:03 -0500)
commit225557446856448039a9e495da37b72c20071ef2
tree92971d171a864881d062b6af4dccb07c2d9d6475
parentc439ca69d5c8306a14ee2f3f39e9c833b4cda3e7
dm integrity: limit the rate of error messages

When using dm-integrity underneath md-raid, some tests with raid
auto-correction trigger large amounts of integrity failures - and all
these failures print an error message. These messages can bring the
system to a halt if the system is using serial console.

Fix this by limiting the rate of error messages - it improves the speed
of raid recovery and avoids the hang.

Fixes: 7eada909bfd7a ("dm: add integrity target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
drivers/md/dm-integrity.c