From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755430AbcHXRs0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:48:26 -0400 Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]:13761 "EHLO SMTP.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752805AbcHXRsZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:48:25 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.28,571,1464652800"; d="scan'208";a="374277342" Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] xen: Make VPMU init message look less scary To: Juergen Gross , , References: <1470122532-9072-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> CC: , From: David Vrabel Message-ID: <57BDDDA4.6010002@citrix.com> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 18:47:16 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1470122532-9072-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DLP: MIA1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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