tree c5d83e123343f190f2ad235cc01dd6750844ea53
parent 4f971248bc6ad2bb2a89a25a072ebfec5757d298
author Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com> 1411617314 -0500
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 1412309081 +0200

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>