[PATCH] i915: change pr_info to pr_info_ratelimited

Andi Shyti andi.shyti at linux.intel.com
Wed Aug 7 14:40:14 UTC 2024


Hi Mikulaus,

On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 04:29:52PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Zdenek Kabelac reported that his syslog was flooded with many messages:
> Purging GPU memory, 0 pages freed, 0 pages still pinned, 2029 pages left available.

Checkpatch complains here:

WARNING:COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE: Prefer a maximum 75 chars per line (possible unwrapped commit description?)

> It happened when he was testing the VDO device mapper module (which
> requires a lot of kernel memory).
> 
> This commit changes the message to be ratelimited, so that it doesn't spam 
> the syslog.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
> Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac at redhat.com>

The sender's SoB should go at the end of the tag list.

> 
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shrinker.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shrinker.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shrinker.c	2024-03-11 12:53:59.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_shrinker.c	2024-08-05 16:07:49.000000000 +0200
> @@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ i915_gem_shrinker_oom(struct notifier_bl
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&i915->mm.obj_lock, flags);
>  
>  	if (freed_pages || available)
> -		pr_info("Purging GPU memory, %lu pages freed, "
> +		pr_info_ratelimited("Purging GPU memory, %lu pages freed, "
>  			"%lu pages still pinned, %lu pages left available.\n",
>  			freed_pages, unevictable, available);

This is not properly aligned. Now a wrapping of up to 100
characters is accepted (however 80 is preferred).

Patch looks good.

Thanks,
Andi


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