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 07:33:27 +0000 (09:33 +0200)
commit3984eae04473472dec30f8280cc3aac514fb14ba
tree9e1e790c5242aefa0148148f87f09f236cce2d45
parent927b5edaa1f13cf12f73403ce69e08f25abe3be7
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