On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Steven, Borislav, one thing that strikes me might be a good idea is to > limit the amount of non-kernel noise in dmesg. We already have the > concept of rate-limiting various spammy internal kernel messages for > when device drivers misbehave etc. Maybe we can just add rate-limiting > to the interfaces that add messages to the kernel buffers, and work > around this problem that way instead while waiting for Gregs fix to > percolate? Or are the systemd debug messages going to so many other > places too that that wouldn't really help?
I think that it's in principle a good idea, however ... the in-kernel ratelimiting always happens per sourcecode location, but this will be rather hard to achieve with interface such as /dev/kmsg. If /dev/kmsg is going to be ratelimited as a whole, it might potentially create a severely unfair situation between individual userspace programs trying to do logging (although there is apparently only one userspace service doing any logging through this interface whatsoever, right?). -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
