This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ALSA: usb-audio: Prevent printk ratelimiting from spamming kernel log while 
DEBUG not defined

to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     
alsa-usb-audio-prevent-printk-ratelimiting-from-spamming-kernel-log-while-debug-not-defined.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From b7a7723513dc89f83d6df13206df55d4dc26e825 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sander Eikelenboom <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 15:09:27 +0200
Subject: ALSA: usb-audio: Prevent printk ratelimiting from spamming kernel log 
while DEBUG not defined

From: Sander Eikelenboom <[email protected]>

commit b7a7723513dc89f83d6df13206df55d4dc26e825 upstream.

This (widely used) construction:

if(printk_ratelimit())
        dev_dbg()

Causes the ratelimiting to spam the kernel log with the "callbacks suppressed"
message below, even while the dev_dbg it is supposed to rate limit wouldn't
print anything because DEBUG is not defined for this device.

[  533.803964] retire_playback_urb: 852 callbacks suppressed
[  538.807930] retire_playback_urb: 852 callbacks suppressed
[  543.811897] retire_playback_urb: 852 callbacks suppressed
[  548.815745] retire_playback_urb: 852 callbacks suppressed
[  553.819826] retire_playback_urb: 852 callbacks suppressed

So use dev_dbg_ratelimited() instead of this construction.

Signed-off-by: Sander Eikelenboom <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 sound/usb/pcm.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/usb/pcm.c
+++ b/sound/usb/pcm.c
@@ -1419,9 +1419,9 @@ static void retire_playback_urb(struct s
         * The error should be lower than 2ms since the estimate relies
         * on two reads of a counter updated every ms.
         */
-       if (printk_ratelimit() &&
-           abs(est_delay - subs->last_delay) * 1000 > runtime->rate * 2)
-               snd_printk(KERN_DEBUG "delay: estimated %d, actual %d\n",
+       if (abs(est_delay - subs->last_delay) * 1000 > runtime->rate * 2)
+               dev_dbg_ratelimited(&subs->dev->dev,
+                       "delay: estimated %d, actual %d\n",
                        est_delay, subs->last_delay);
 
        if (!subs->running) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.10/alsa-usb-audio-prevent-printk-ratelimiting-from-spamming-kernel-log-while-debug-not-defined.patch
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