Re: KVM: x86: switch unhandled MSR printk's to tracepoints

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On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 02:33:17PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 09:50:09PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > 
> > Such messages in the system log very often cause confusion because users
> > understand the "kvm: unhandled MSR" messages as errors.
> > 
> They are errors. Linux compiled with PV support ignores them, but other
> guest OSes or Linux without PV will crash. Some indication that guest
> crash due to use of unsupported MSR is a helpful hint where to look.

OK, closing 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883216
as wontfix because printk_ratelimit renders the messages unreliable.

> > Switch to trace points, making the information available on demand.
> What new information those trace points provide that we cannot get today
> from trace_kvm_msr()?

None. 

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