If a perf_event creation fails due to any reason of the host perf subsystem, it has no chance to log the corresponding event for guest which may cause abnormal sampling data in guest result. In debug mode, this message helps to understand the state of vPMC and we should not limit the number of occurrences. Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c index aa5a2597305a..259ada8d6db6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c @@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ static void pmc_reprogram_counter(struct kvm_pmc *pmc, u32 type, intr ? kvm_perf_overflow_intr : kvm_perf_overflow, pmc); if (IS_ERR(event)) { - printk_once("kvm_pmu: event creation failed %ld\n", - PTR_ERR(event)); + pr_debug("kvm_pmu: event creation failed %ld\n for pmc->idx = %d", + PTR_ERR(event), pmc->idx); return; } -- 2.21.0