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From:   Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, like.xu@linux.intel.com
Subject: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed
Date:   Thu, 18 Jul 2019 13:35:14 +0800
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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>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
index aa5a2597305a..cedaa01ceb6f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c
@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ static void pmc_reprogram_counter(struct kvm_pmc *pmc, u32 type,
 						 intr ? kvm_perf_overflow_intr :
 						 kvm_perf_overflow, pmc);
 	if (IS_ERR(event)) {
-		printk_once("kvm_pmu: event creation failed %ld\n",
-			    PTR_ERR(event));
+		pr_debug_ratelimited("kvm_pmu: event creation failed %ld for pmc->idx = %d\n",
+			    PTR_ERR(event), pmc->idx);
 		return;
 	}
 
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