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: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/drivers/serial/8250.c b/drivers/serial/8250.c
index 37f19a6..167c4a6 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/serial/8250.c
+++ b/drivers/serial/8250.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/platform_device.h>
 #include <linux/tty.h>
+#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include <linux/tty_flip.h>
 #include <linux/serial_reg.h>
 #include <linux/serial_core.h>
@@ -1600,8 +1601,8 @@ static irqreturn_t serial8250_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
 
                if (l == i->head && pass_counter++ > PASS_LIMIT) {
                        /* If we hit this, we're dead. */
-                       printk(KERN_ERR "serial8250: too much work for "
-                               "irq%d\n", irq);
+                       printk_ratelimited(KERN_ERR
+                               "serial8250: too much work for irq%d\n", irq);
                        break;
                }
        } while (l != end);