3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de
[ Upstream commit 11d42c81036324697d367600bfc16f6dd37636fd ]
The error messages at sanity checks of memory pages tend to repeat too many times once when it hits, and without the rate limit, it may flood and become unreadable. Replace such messages with the *_ratelimited() variant.
Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1093027 Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- sound/pci/emu10k1/memory.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/sound/pci/emu10k1/memory.c +++ b/sound/pci/emu10k1/memory.c @@ -237,13 +237,13 @@ __found_pages: static int is_valid_page(struct snd_emu10k1 *emu, dma_addr_t addr) { if (addr & ~emu->dma_mask) { - dev_err(emu->card->dev, + dev_err_ratelimited(emu->card->dev, "max memory size is 0x%lx (addr = 0x%lx)!!\n", emu->dma_mask, (unsigned long)addr); return 0; } if (addr & (EMUPAGESIZE-1)) { - dev_err(emu->card->dev, "page is not aligned\n"); + dev_err_ratelimited(emu->card->dev, "page is not aligned\n"); return 0; } return 1; @@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ snd_emu10k1_alloc_pages(struct snd_emu10 else addr = snd_pcm_sgbuf_get_addr(substream, ofs); if (! is_valid_page(emu, addr)) { - dev_err(emu->card->dev, + dev_err_ratelimited(emu->card->dev, "emu: failure page = %d\n", idx); mutex_unlock(&hdr->block_mutex); return NULL;