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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-04-11 14:53:53 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-04-11 14:53:53 -0700
commit871039f02f8ec4ab2e5e9010718caa8e085786f1 (patch)
treef0d2b3127fc48c862967d68c46c2d46668137515 /lib/ratelimit.c
parente4077e018b5ead3de9951fc01d8bf12eeeeeefed (diff)
parent4a1032faac94ebbf647460ae3e06fc21146eb280 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/net/stmmac/stmmac_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_cmd.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_spi.c net/core/ethtool.c net/mac80211/scan.c
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/ratelimit.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/ratelimit.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/ratelimit.c b/lib/ratelimit.c
index 09f5ce1810d..027a03f4c56 100644
--- a/lib/ratelimit.c
+++ b/lib/ratelimit.c
@@ -16,9 +16,14 @@
/*
* __ratelimit - rate limiting
* @rs: ratelimit_state data
+ * @func: name of calling function
*
- * This enforces a rate limit: not more than @rs->ratelimit_burst callbacks
- * in every @rs->ratelimit_jiffies
+ * This enforces a rate limit: not more than @rs->burst callbacks
+ * in every @rs->interval
+ *
+ * RETURNS:
+ * 0 means callbacks will be suppressed.
+ * 1 means go ahead and do it.
*/
int ___ratelimit(struct ratelimit_state *rs, const char *func)
{
@@ -35,7 +40,7 @@ int ___ratelimit(struct ratelimit_state *rs, const char *func)
* the entity that is holding the lock already:
*/
if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&rs->lock, flags))
- return 1;
+ return 0;
if (!rs->begin)
rs->begin = jiffies;