For messages like NMI watchdog disabled for cpu0: unable to create perf event: -95 KERN_WARNING seems to be more appropriate than KERN_ERR. (Main benefit of the KERN_WARNING level is that Fedora's plymouth bootsplash should now hide them.) Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Yes, the changed line is getting very long, but that is apparently not a problem in this file. kernel/watchdog.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index f37f974..1c2ffe1 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static int watchdog_nmi_enable(int cpu) goto out_save; } - printk(KERN_ERR "NMI watchdog disabled for cpu%i: unable to create perf event: %ld\n", + printk(KERN_WARNING "NMI watchdog disabled for cpu%i: unable to create perf event: %ld\n", cpu, PTR_ERR(event)); return PTR_ERR(event); -- 1.7.4 _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel