Re: [PATCH resend] intel_rapl: downgrade message if no RAPL domains found in a VM

From: Jacob Pan
Date: Tue Jul 19 2016 - 08:29:02 EST


On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:49:57 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> People complain about the driver saying there's no valid RAPL domains
> in a VM, and doing so at KERN_ERR severity. Downgrade this to
> KERN_INFO if running on a hypervisor, since it is basically stating
> the obvious.
>
Acked-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> First sent out about a year ago. :)
>
> drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c
> b/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c index b2766b867b0e..0a0b09910116
> 100644 --- a/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c
> +++ b/drivers/powercap/intel_rapl.c
> @@ -1392,7 +1392,9 @@ static int rapl_detect_domains(struct
> rapl_package *rp, int cpu) }
> rp->nr_domains = bitmap_weight(&rp->domain_map,
> RAPL_DOMAIN_MAX); if (!rp->nr_domains) {
> - pr_err("no valid rapl domains found in package
> %d\n", rp->id);
> + printk("%sNo valid RAPL domains found in package
> %d\n",
> + boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR) ?
> KERN_INFO : KERN_ERR,
> + rp->id);
> ret = -ENODEV;
> goto done;
> }