From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760306Ab2FHCQA (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:16:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49380 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759939Ab2FHCP6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:15:58 -0400 From: Don Zickus To: LKML Cc: Andrew Morton , nzimmer@sgi.com, Don Zickus Subject: [PATCH] watchdog: Quiet down the boot messages Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:15:36 -0400 Message-Id: <1339121736-22574-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org A bunch of bugzillas have complained how noisy the nmi_watchdog is during boot-up especially with its expected failure cases (like virt and bios resource contention). This is my attempt to quiet them down and keep it less confusing for the end user. What I did is print the message for cpu0 and save it for future comparisions. If future cpus have an identical message as cpu0, then don't print the redundant info. However, if a future cpu has a different message, happily print that loudly. Before the change, you would see something like: ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz stepping 0a Performance Events: PEBS fmt0+, Core2 events, Intel PMU driver. ... version: 2 ... bit width: 40 ... generic registers: 2 ... value mask: 000000ffffffffff ... max period: 000000007fffffff ... fixed-purpose events: 3 ... event mask: 0000000700000003 NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. Booting Node 0, Processors #1 NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. #2 NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. #3 Ok. NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. Brought up 4 CPUs Total of 4 processors activated (22607.24 BogoMIPS). After the change, it is simlified to: ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz stepping 0a Performance Events: PEBS fmt0+, Core2 events, Intel PMU driver. ... version: 2 ... bit width: 40 ... generic registers: 2 ... value mask: 000000ffffffffff ... max period: 000000007fffffff ... fixed-purpose events: 3 ... event mask: 0000000700000003 NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. Booting Node 0, Processors #1 #2 #3 Ok. Brought up 4 CPUs Reported-and-tested-by: Nathan Zimmer Signed-off-by: Don Zickus --- kernel/watchdog.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index e5e1d85..79ff671 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -377,6 +377,14 @@ static int watchdog_nmi_enable(int cpu) struct perf_event_attr *wd_attr; struct perf_event *event = per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu); + /* + * People like the simple clean cpu node info + * on boot. Simplify the noise from the watchdog + * by only printing messages that are different than + * what cpu0 displayed + */ + static unsigned long err0 = 0; + /* is it already setup and enabled? */ if (event && event->state > PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF) goto out; @@ -390,11 +398,21 @@ static int watchdog_nmi_enable(int cpu) /* Try to register using hardware perf events */ event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(wd_attr, cpu, NULL, watchdog_overflow_callback, NULL); + + /* save cpu0 error for future comparision */ + if (!cpu) + err0 = (IS_ERR(event) ? PTR_ERR(event) : 0); + if (!IS_ERR(event)) { - pr_info("enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.\n"); + /* only print for cpu0 or different than cpu0 */ + if (!cpu || err0) + pr_info("enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.\n"); goto out_save; } + /* skip displaying the same error again */ + if ((PTR_ERR(event) == err0) && cpu) + return PTR_ERR(event); /* vary the KERN level based on the returned errno */ if (PTR_ERR(event) == -EOPNOTSUPP) -- 1.7.7.6