On an OEM laptop I see the following message 10 times in my dmesg: "kvm: support for 'kvm_amd' disabled by bios" This might be useful the first time, but there really isn't a point to showing the error 9 more times. The BIOS still has it disabled. Change the message to only display one time. Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 4790f0d7d40b..80a8ea13f09a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -8887,7 +8887,7 @@ int kvm_arch_init(void *opaque) goto out; } if (ops->disabled_by_bios()) { - pr_err_ratelimited("kvm: support for '%s' disabled by bios\n", + pr_err_once("kvm: support for '%s' disabled by bios\n", ops->runtime_ops->name); r = -EOPNOTSUPP; goto out; -- 2.34.1