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>
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 05:28:38 +0000 (07:28 +0200)
commiteba797dbf352244429cc60a6577c0c0e5ad745b0
tree437acf645c266ba3a6ec2d739926a7a2bbc1fc98
parent4d38d6ca98b7a98e705e93b3b54fee2a1019d2f0
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