From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>, <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] xen: Make VPMU init message look less scary
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 18:47:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57BDDDA4.6010002@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470122532-9072-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com>
On 02/08/16 08:22, Juergen Gross wrote:
> The default for the Xen hypervisor is to not enable VPMU in order to
> avoid security issues. In this case the Linux kernel will issue the
> message "Could not initialize VPMU for cpu 0, error -95" which looks
> more like an error than a normal state.
>
> Change the message to something less scary in case the hypervisor
> returns EOPNOTSUPP or ENOSYS when trying to activate VPMU.
Applied to for-linus-4.9, thanks.
David
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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] xen: Make VPMU init message look less scary
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 18:47:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57BDDDA4.6010002@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470122532-9072-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com>
On 02/08/16 08:22, Juergen Gross wrote:
> The default for the Xen hypervisor is to not enable VPMU in order to
> avoid security issues. In this case the Linux kernel will issue the
> message "Could not initialize VPMU for cpu 0, error -95" which looks
> more like an error than a normal state.
>
> Change the message to something less scary in case the hypervisor
> returns EOPNOTSUPP or ENOSYS when trying to activate VPMU.
Applied to for-linus-4.9, thanks.
David
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-02 7:22 [PATCH v3] xen: Make VPMU init message look less scary Juergen Gross
2016-08-02 7:22 ` Juergen Gross
2016-08-02 14:10 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-08-18 6:01 ` Juergen Gross
2016-08-18 6:01 ` Juergen Gross
2016-08-24 17:47 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2016-08-24 17:47 ` David Vrabel
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