Ratelimit a memory allocation failure message that can be too chatty.

b=16450

diff --git a/libcfs/libcfs/tracefile.c b/libcfs/libcfs/tracefile.c
index 5b9543e..de9c8e9 100644 (file)
--- a/libcfs/libcfs/tracefile.c
+++ b/libcfs/libcfs/tracefile.c
@@ -150,8 +150,9 @@ static struct trace_page *trace_get_tage_try(struct trace_cpu_data *tcd,
                 } else {
                         tage = tage_alloc(CFS_ALLOC_ATOMIC);
                         if (tage == NULL) {
+                                if (printk_ratelimit())
                                 printk(KERN_WARNING
-                                       "failure to allocate a tage (%ld)\n",
+                                               "cannot allocate a tage (%ld)\n",
                                        tcd->tcd_cur_pages);
                                 return NULL;
                         }

diff --git a/lustre/ChangeLog b/lustre/ChangeLog
index c6b98a7..39ad54d 100644 (file)
--- a/lustre/ChangeLog
+++ b/lustre/ChangeLog
@@ -1702,6 +1702,13 @@ Bugzilla   : 16450
 Description: Add sendfile.c test program.
 Details    : New testing program exercising sendfile(2) (Jay).
 
+Severity   : minor
+Bugzilla   : 16450
+Description: Ratelimit a message that can be very frequent.
+Details    : Ratelimit a memory allocation failure message that can
+            be too chatty.
+
+
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