ratelimit: Make suppressed output messages more useful

Today I got:

  [39648.224782] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX
  [40676.545099] __ratelimit: 246 callbacks suppressed
  [40676.545103] abcdef[23675]: segfault at 0 ...

as you can see the ratelimit message contains a function prefix.
Since this is always __ratelimit, this wont help much.

This patch changes __ratelimit and printk_ratelimit to print the
function name that calls ratelimit.

This will pinpoint the responsible function, as long as not several
different places call ratelimit with the same ratelimit state at
the same time. In that case we catch only one random function that
calls ratelimit after the wait period.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <200910231458.11832.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 3305f33201be..21d0d822c716 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -240,7 +240,8 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
 asmlinkage int printk(const char * fmt, ...)
 	__attribute__ ((format (printf, 1, 2))) __cold;
 
-extern int printk_ratelimit(void);
+extern int __printk_ratelimit(const char *func);
+#define printk_ratelimit() __printk_ratelimit(__func__)
 extern bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies,
 				   unsigned int interval_msec);