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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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 4 Aug 2019 07:34:51 +0000 (09:34 +0200)
commit505c011f9f5379f6007a1aa800f3af5163a1b475
tree95a4f2ca2138652f2ad944f6797908dee7ab729e
parent80fb02ad453cfe2d16fedf52feb6b410d235a240
KVM: x86/vPMU: refine kvm_pmu err msg when event creation failed

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>
arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c