Re: [PATCH -v3 1/2] ratelimit: Extend to print suppressed messages on release

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 10:53:55PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Yes, this is new in next. As far as I can see, the new message would only
> appear if we would call ratelimit_state_exit. Correct? We do not call this -
> I assume this is ok?

Right, the idea for the /dev/kmsg use case was to issue the suppressed
count only when we release the ratelimit state.

> We really only want to reuse the rate limit base code (to avoid writing the same
> code twice) and being in lib indicated that this can indeed be used outside
> printk.
> Now: your patch 1 would allow me to get rid of the messages completely
> by setting the flag and by not calling ratelimit_state_exit. Which is probably
> what we should do in our code.

Yeah, that should work for your usecase.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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