From a70270468234749741c5893ae78e5bb524771402 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Zickus Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:35:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] watchdog: Quiet down the boot messages 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 comparisons. 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 simplified 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 on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter. Booting Node 0, Processors #1 #2 #3 Ok. Brought up 4 CPUs V2: little changes based on Joe Perches' feedback V3: printk cleanup based on Ingo's feedback; checkpatch fix V4: keep printk as one long line V5: Ingo fix ups Reported-and-tested-by: Nathan Zimmer Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Cc: nzimmer@sgi.com Cc: joe@perches.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339594548-17227-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/watchdog.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index e5e1d85b8c7c23..4b1dfba70f7cf8 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -372,6 +372,13 @@ static int watchdog(void *unused) #ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR +/* + * People like the simple clean cpu node info on boot. + * Reduce the watchdog noise by only printing messages + * that are different from what cpu0 displayed. + */ +static unsigned long cpu0_err; + static int watchdog_nmi_enable(int cpu) { struct perf_event_attr *wd_attr; @@ -390,11 +397,21 @@ 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 == 0 && IS_ERR(event)) + cpu0_err = PTR_ERR(event); + if (!IS_ERR(event)) { - pr_info("enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.\n"); + /* only print for cpu0 or different than cpu0 */ + if (cpu == 0 || cpu0_err) + pr_info("enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.\n"); goto out_save; } + /* skip displaying the same error again */ + if (cpu > 0 && (PTR_ERR(event) == cpu0_err)) + return PTR_ERR(event); /* vary the KERN level based on the returned errno */ if (PTR_ERR(event) == -EOPNOTSUPP)