From: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>

This patch limits the messages when ldisc open faulures happen.  It happens
under memory pressure.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 drivers/char/tty_io.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/char/tty_io.c~rate-limiting-for-the-ldisc-open-failure-messages drivers/char/tty_io.c
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c~rate-limiting-for-the-ldisc-open-failure-messages
+++ a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -2065,8 +2065,9 @@ fail_no_mem:
 
 	/* call the tty release_mem routine to clean out this slot */
 release_mem_out:
-	printk(KERN_INFO "init_dev: ldisc open failed, "
-			 "clearing slot %d\n", idx);
+	if (printk_ratelimit())
+		printk(KERN_INFO "init_dev: ldisc open failed, "
+				 "clearing slot %d\n", idx);
 	release_mem(tty, idx);
 	goto end_init;
 }
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