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Commit cd3ecad1 authored by Daniel Drake's avatar Daniel Drake Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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serial8250: ratelimit "too much work" error



Running a serial console, if too many kernel messages are generated within
a short time causing a lot of serial I/O, the 8250 driver will generate
another kernel message reporting this, which just adds to the I/O. It has
a cascading effect and quickly results the system being brought to its knees
by a flood of "too much work" messages.

Ratelimit the error message to avoid this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use the superior printk_ratelimited()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: printk_ratelimited() needs ratelimit.h]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Acked-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 0dd25df1
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