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perf/x86: Tone down kernel messages when the PMU check fails in a virtual environment 

PMU checking can fail due to various reasons. On native machine, this
is mostly caused by faulty hardware and it is reasonable to use
KERN_ERR in reporting. However, when kernel is running on virtualized
environment, this checking can fail if virtual PMU is not supported
(e.g. KVM on AMD host). It is annoying to see an error message on
splash screen, even though we know such failure is benign on
virtualized environment.

This patch checks if the kernel is running in a virtualized environment.
If so, it will use KERN_INFO in reporting, which reduces the syslog
priority of them. This patch was tested successfully on KVM.

Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1411617314-24659-1-git-send-email-wei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Wei Huang 2014-09-24 22:55:14 -05:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 4f971248bc
commit cc6cd47e73
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@ -243,7 +243,8 @@ static bool check_hw_exists(void)
msr_fail:
printk(KERN_CONT "Broken PMU hardware detected, using software events only.\n");
printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to access perfctr msr (MSR %x is %Lx)\n", reg, val_new);
printk(boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR) ? KERN_INFO : KERN_ERR
"Failed to access perfctr msr (MSR %x is %Lx)\n", reg, val_new);
return false;
}