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KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed
authorLike Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 05:35:14 +0000 (13:35 +0800)
committerKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:18:49 +0000 (11:18 +0200)
commit001836f17c906ad97f6d74dab91209cd2b135922
tree595449cfcf9699c95ecf43ab7e5ad380d9bf1229
parentab2011238d32697496231ac828f39890ab73794a
KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1839036
commit 6fc3977ccc5d3c22e851f2dce2d3ce2a0a843842 upstream.

If a perf_event creation fails due to any reason of the host perf
subsystem, it has no chance to log the corresponding event for guest
which may cause abnormal sampling data in guest result. In debug mode,
this message helps to understand the state of vPMC and we may not
limit the number of occurrences but not in a spamming style.

Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c