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authorUwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>2008-07-30 01:33:38 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-30 12:41:45 -0400
commit641de9d8f505db055d451b50e6e38117f84e79bb (patch)
treeaf9cbd5390321a7f5a6b245215c79289930f41bd
parent8f3d137e0d6cd470a4e404cbc67480a0febdb0b1 (diff)
printk: fix comment for printk ratelimiting
The comment assumed the burst to be one and the ratelimit used to be named printk_ratelimit_jiffies. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index a7f7559c5f6c..b51b1567bb55 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1309,14 +1309,14 @@ void tty_write_message(struct tty_struct *tty, char *msg)
1309 1309
1310#if defined CONFIG_PRINTK 1310#if defined CONFIG_PRINTK
1311 1311
1312DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(printk_ratelimit_state, 5 * HZ, 10);
1313/* 1312/*
1314 * printk rate limiting, lifted from the networking subsystem. 1313 * printk rate limiting, lifted from the networking subsystem.
1315 * 1314 *
1316 * This enforces a rate limit: not more than one kernel message 1315 * This enforces a rate limit: not more than 10 kernel messages
1317 * every printk_ratelimit_jiffies to make a denial-of-service 1316 * every 5s to make a denial-of-service attack impossible.
1318 * attack impossible.
1319 */ 1317 */
1318DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(printk_ratelimit_state, 5 * HZ, 10);
1319
1320int printk_ratelimit(void) 1320int printk_ratelimit(void)
1321{ 1321{
1322 return __ratelimit(&printk_ratelimit_state); 1322 return __ratelimit(&printk_ratelimit_state);