On 15/09/2017 21:21, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> static bool svm_get_enable_apicv(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) >>>> { >>> A close contender was pr_info_once() here: >>> >>> if (avic && !irqchip_split(vcpu->kvm)) >>> pr_info_once(...) >>> >> >> Looks good. > > Actually, thinking about it again, this would not work either since > pr_xxx_once() would only print the message once per loading of kvm_amd > module. However, we would prefer the message to be printed per VM > initialization. I also tried adding the check and print this message in > the kvm_x86_ops.vm_init(), but this also does not work since the > vm_init() function is called before the > kvm_vm_ioctl_enable_cap(KVM_CAP_SPLIT_IRQCHIP). > > Therefore, pr_info() might be better here, even though this would get > print per VCPU initialization. Any other suggestions? My suggestion is to make it pr_info_once. No one looks at dmesg anyway unless things go very wrong. Paolo