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locking/refcounts: Change WARN() to WARN_ONCE()
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 1 Mar 2017 08:25:55 +0000 (09:25 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 1 Mar 2017 08:25:55 +0000 (09:25 +0100)
commit9dcfe2c75b51f454f39c2de4756e841228865b47
tree994ed0f8e86d8eeb6baec7a72b489fef5cd8f9be
parent2d6be4abf514fc26c83d239c7f31da1f95e4a31d
locking/refcounts: Change WARN() to WARN_ONCE()

Linus noticed that the new refcount.h APIs used WARN(), which would turn
into a dmesg DoS if it triggers frequently on some buggy driver.

So make sure we only warn once. These warnings are never supposed to happen,
so it's typically not a problem to lose subsequent warnings.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzbYUTZ=oqZ2YgDjY0C2_n6ODhTfqj6V+m5xWmDxsuB0w@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
lib/refcount.c