SAP's vSMP MemoryONE continuously requests a local APIC timer period
less than 500 us, resulting in the following kernel log spam:
kvm: vcpu 15: requested 70240 ns lapic timer period limited to 500000 ns
kvm: vcpu 19: requested 52848 ns lapic timer period limited to 500000 ns
kvm: vcpu 15: requested 70256 ns lapic timer period limited to 500000 ns
kvm: vcpu 9: requested 70256 ns lapic timer period limited to 500000 ns
kvm: vcpu 9: requested 70208 ns lapic timer period limited to 500000 ns
kvm: vcpu 9: requested 387520 ns lapic timer period limited to 500000 ns
kvm: vcpu 9: requested 70160 ns lapic timer period limited to 500000 ns
kvm: vcpu 66: requested 205744 ns lapic timer period limited to 500000 ns
kvm: vcpu 9: requested 70224 ns lapic timer period limited to 500000 ns
kvm: vcpu 9: requested 70256 ns lapic timer period limited to 500000 ns
limit_periodic_timer_frequency: 7569 callbacks suppressed
...
To eliminate this spam, change the pr_info_ratelimited() in
limit_periodic_timer_frequency() to pr_info_once().
Reported-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
index f64a5cc0ce72..c576a53733e5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
@@ -1743,7 +1743,7 @@ static void limit_periodic_timer_frequency(struct kvm_lapic *apic)
s64 min_period = min_timer_period_us * 1000LL;
if (apic->lapic_timer.period < min_period) {
- pr_info_ratelimited(
+ pr_info_once(
"vcpu %i: requested %lld ns "
"lapic timer period limited to %lld ns\n",
apic->vcpu->vcpu_id,
--
2.45.2.1089.g2a221341d9-goog
