Re: [PATCH] xen: Make VPMU init message look less scary

From	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] xen: Make VPMU init message look less scary
Date	2016-08-01 16:20 +0200
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On 08/01/2016 07:41 AM, 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 when trying to activate VPMU.
>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>

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[PATCH] xen: Make VPMU init message look less scary Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2016-08-01 13:50 +0200
  Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Make VPMU init message look less scary Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> - 2016-08-01 16:20 +0200
    Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Make VPMU init message look less scary Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-08-01 18:00 +0200
    Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Make VPMU init message look less scary Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2016-08-01 19:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] xen: Make VPMU init message look less scary Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2016-08-01 16:20 +0200

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