Prevent the system from becoming unstable or unusable due to a flood of memory allocation error messages under memory pressure, e.g.: [...] fddi0: Could not allocate receive buffer. Dropping packet. fddi0: Could not allocate receive buffer. Dropping packet. fddi0: Could not allocate receive buffer. Dropping packet. fddi0: Could not allocate receive buffer. Dropping packet. rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU rcu: 0-...!: (332 ticks this GP) idle=255c/1/0x40000000 softirq=16420123/16420123 fqs=0 rcu: (t=2103 jiffies g=35680089 q=4 ncpus=1) rcu: rcu_sched kthread timer wakeup didn't happen for 2102 jiffies! g35680089 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 rcu: Possible timer handling issue on cpu=0 timer-softirq=12779658 rcu: rcu_sched kthread starved for 2103 jiffies! g35680089 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) ->state=0x402 ->cpu=0 rcu: Unless rcu_sched kthread gets sufficient CPU time, OOM is now expected behavior. rcu: RCU grace-period kthread stack dump: task:rcu_sched state:I stack:0 pid:14 tgid:14 ppid:2 flags:0x00004000 Call Trace: __schedule+0x258/0x580 schedule+0x19/0xa0 schedule_timeout+0x4a/0xb0 ? hrtimers_cpu_dying+0x1b0/0x1b0 rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0xb1/0x450 rcu_gp_kthread+0x9d/0x130 kthread+0xb2/0xe0 ? rcu_gp_init+0x4a0/0x4a0 ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90 ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50 ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90 ret_from_fork_asm+0x12/0x20 entry_INT80_32+0x10d/0x10d CPU: 0 UID: 500 PID: 21895 Comm: 31370.exe Not tainted 6.13.0-dirty #2 (here running the libstdc++-v3 testsuite). Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki --- drivers/net/fddi/defxx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) linux-defxx-ratelimit.diff Index: linux-macro/drivers/net/fddi/defxx.c =================================================================== --- linux-macro.orig/drivers/net/fddi/defxx.c +++ linux-macro/drivers/net/fddi/defxx.c @@ -3182,7 +3182,7 @@ static void dfx_rcv_queue_process( pkt_len + 3); if (skb == NULL) { - printk("%s: Could not allocate receive buffer. Dropping packet.\n", bp->dev->name); + printk_ratelimited("%s: Could not allocate receive buffer. Dropping packet.\n", bp->dev->name); bp->rcv_discards++; break; }