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| author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2009-01-06 23:40:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-07 00:59:07 +0100 |
| commit | d936cf9b39b06c8d2e0d7fb5e7b4f176e18dec69 (patch) | |
| tree | db691451bc77e90b980b62674519731c6ece72db /mm/page_alloc.c | |
| parent | badpage: remove vma from page_remove_rmap (diff) | |
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badpage: ratelimit print_bad_pte and bad_page
print_bad_pte() and bad_page() might each need ratelimiting - especially
for their dump_stacks, almost never of interest, yet not quite
dispensible. Correlating corruption across neighbouring entries can be
very helpful, so allow a burst of 60 reports before keeping quiet for the
remainder of that minute (or allow a steady drip of one report per
second).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 26 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 755c99a0ac71..d1a80f652c6f 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -223,6 +223,30 @@ static inline int bad_range(struct zone *zone, struct page *page) static void bad_page(struct page *page) { + static unsigned long resume; + static unsigned long nr_shown; + static unsigned long nr_unshown; + + /* + * Allow a burst of 60 reports, then keep quiet for that minute; + * or allow a steady drip of one report per second. + */ + if (nr_shown == 60) { + if (time_before(jiffies, resume)) { + nr_unshown++; + goto out; + } + if (nr_unshown) { + printk(KERN_EMERG + "Bad page state: %lu messages suppressed\n", + nr_unshown); + nr_unshown = 0; + } + nr_shown = 0; + } + if (nr_shown++ == 0) + resume = jiffies + 60 * HZ; + printk(KERN_EMERG "Bad page state in process %s pfn:%05lx\n", current->comm, page_to_pfn(page)); printk(KERN_EMERG @@ -232,7 +256,7 @@ static void bad_page(struct page *page) printk(KERN_EMERG "Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed\n"); dump_stack(); - +out: /* Leave bad fields for debug, except PageBuddy could make trouble */ __ClearPageBuddy(page); add_taint(TAINT_BAD_PAGE); |