RTC: Ratelimit "lost interrupts" message
We gets lots of these when the kernel is running on a hypervisor. Zach says
"a guest kernel trying to get high frequency RTC will also be inaccurate, and
inevitably will have unhidable interrupt lateness."
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/rtc.c b/drivers/char/rtc.c
index 20380a2..22cf7aa 100644
--- a/drivers/char/rtc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/rtc.c
@@ -1159,7 +1159,8 @@
spin_unlock_irq(&rtc_lock);
- printk(KERN_WARNING "rtc: lost some interrupts at %ldHz.\n", freq);
+ if (printk_ratelimit())
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "rtc: lost some interrupts at %ldHz.\n", freq);
/* Now we have new data */
wake_up_interruptible(&rtc_wait);