diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 488d4e40a830..5cbcb1df78b3 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 094e47e9fa79e28f0e51e37400ea6eea35a4ee1f
+refs/heads/master: 6ca045930338485a8cdef117e74372aa1678009d
diff --git a/trunk/include/linux/device.h b/trunk/include/linux/device.h
index 863acf8a0dce..a8db2cfa2c81 100644
--- a/trunk/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/trunk/include/linux/device.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/pm.h>
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include <asm/device.h>
 
 struct device;
@@ -933,6 +934,32 @@ int _dev_info(const struct device *dev, const char *fmt, ...)
 
 #endif
 
+#define dev_level_ratelimited(dev_level, dev, fmt, ...)			\
+do {									\
+	static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(_rs,				\
+				      DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_INTERVAL,	\
+				      DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);		\
+	if (__ratelimit(&_rs))						\
+		dev_level(dev, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__);			\
+} while (0)
+
+#define dev_emerg_ratelimited(dev, fmt, ...)				\
+	dev_level_ratelimited(dev_emerg, dev, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define dev_alert_ratelimited(dev, fmt, ...)				\
+	dev_level_ratelimited(dev_alert, dev, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define dev_crit_ratelimited(dev, fmt, ...)				\
+	dev_level_ratelimited(dev_crit, dev, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define dev_err_ratelimited(dev, fmt, ...)				\
+	dev_level_ratelimited(dev_err, dev, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define dev_warn_ratelimited(dev, fmt, ...)				\
+	dev_level_ratelimited(dev_warn, dev, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define dev_notice_ratelimited(dev, fmt, ...)				\
+	dev_level_ratelimited(dev_notice, dev, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define dev_info_ratelimited(dev, fmt, ...)				\
+	dev_level_ratelimited(dev_info, dev, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+#define dev_dbg_ratelimited(dev, fmt, ...)				\
+	dev_level_ratelimited(dev_dbg, dev, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
+
 /*
  * Stupid hackaround for existing uses of non-printk uses dev_info
  *