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>
Fri, 26 Jul 2019 07:14:24 +0000 (09:14 +0200)
commitba27a25df6df0ad3dad12d87fbc39a3218c7f5d2
treebf8e10c0849957faf22c6c0d45cf8aea1732a1cb
parent87bae91a0fe9e76b69e5110ca35caeba29dcc182
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