From: S.Caglar Onur Use printk_ratelimit() instead of jiffies based arithmetic, suggested by Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: S.Caglar Onur Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/binfmt_aout.c | 12 +++--------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/binfmt_aout.c~fs-binfmt_aoutc-use-printk_ratelimit fs/binfmt_aout.c --- a/fs/binfmt_aout.c~fs-binfmt_aoutc-use-printk_ratelimit +++ a/fs/binfmt_aout.c @@ -372,21 +372,17 @@ static int load_aout_binary(struct linux flush_icache_range(text_addr, text_addr+ex.a_text+ex.a_data); } else { - static unsigned long error_time, error_time2; if ((ex.a_text & 0xfff || ex.a_data & 0xfff) && - (N_MAGIC(ex) != NMAGIC) && (jiffies-error_time2) > 5*HZ) + (N_MAGIC(ex) != NMAGIC) && printk_ratelimit()) { printk(KERN_NOTICE "executable not page aligned\n"); - error_time2 = jiffies; } - if ((fd_offset & ~PAGE_MASK) != 0 && - (jiffies-error_time) > 5*HZ) + if ((fd_offset & ~PAGE_MASK) != 0 && printk_ratelimit()) { printk(KERN_WARNING "fd_offset is not page aligned. Please convert program: %s\n", bprm->file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name); - error_time = jiffies; } if (!bprm->file->f_op->mmap||((fd_offset & ~PAGE_MASK) != 0)) { @@ -495,15 +491,13 @@ static int load_aout_library(struct file start_addr = ex.a_entry & 0xfffff000; if ((N_TXTOFF(ex) & ~PAGE_MASK) != 0) { - static unsigned long error_time; loff_t pos = N_TXTOFF(ex); - if ((jiffies-error_time) > 5*HZ) + if (printk_ratelimit()) { printk(KERN_WARNING "N_TXTOFF is not page aligned. Please convert library: %s\n", file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name); - error_time = jiffies; } down_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); do_brk(start_addr, ex.a_text + ex.a_data + ex.a_bss); _