Re: [PATCH] rpmsg: virtio_rpmsg_bus: use dev_warn_ratelimited for msg with no recipient

From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Tue Sep 28 2021 - 17:34:00 EST


On Tue 28 Sep 08:29 CDT 2021, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:

> From: Alexandru Ardelean <ardeleanalex@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Even though it may be user-space's fault for this error (some application
> terminated or crashed without cleaning up it's endpoint), the rpmsg
> communication should not overflow the syslog with too many messages.
>
> A dev_warn_ratelimited() seems like a good alternative in case this can
> occur.
>

Is there anything a user could/should do when they see this entry in
their log?

It doesn't look very actionable to me, should we perhaps degrade it
further to just a dev_dbg()?

Regards,
Bjorn

> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <ardeleanalex@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c b/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c
> index 8e49a3bacfc7..546f0fb66f1d 100644
> --- a/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c
> @@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ static int rpmsg_recv_single(struct virtproc_info *vrp, struct device *dev,
> /* farewell, ept, we don't need you anymore */
> kref_put(&ept->refcount, __ept_release);
> } else
> - dev_warn(dev, "msg received with no recipient\n");
> + dev_warn_ratelimited(dev, "msg received with no recipient\n");
>
> /* publish the real size of the buffer */
> rpmsg_sg_init(&sg, msg, vrp->buf_size);
> --
> 2.31.1
>