linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] perf changes for v3.11

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Message-ID: <51D46034.5000209@amd.com>
Date:	Wed, 3 Jul 2013 12:32:36 -0500
From:	Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@....com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] perf changes for v3.11

On 7/3/2013 2:55 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 05:50:29PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>>>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git perf-core-for-linus
>>>
>>> Kernel improvements:
>>>
>>>   * AMD IOMMU uncore PMU support by Suravee Suthikulpanit001a
>> This one prints a really annoying error message if you're not on an
>> AMD platform:
>>
>> +       if (!amd_iommu_pc_supported()) {
>> +               pr_err("perf: amd_iommu PMU not installed. No support!\n");
>> +               return -ENODEV;
>> +       }
>>
>> and you know what? That's not acceptable. It damn well is *not* an
>> error to not have an AMD IOMMU.
>>
>> It should - at most - be a pr_info(). Maybe nothing at all. "pr_err()"
>> is just totally out of line.
> Quite; it prints enough stuff when it does find one so I'm all for
> scrapping that one print when it doesn't find it.
>
> Sorry for not seeing that; when I initially read that code I thought it was for
> the case where the hardware was expected to have the device but we couldn't
> find it for some weird reason.
>
> ---
> Subject: perf, amd: Do not print an error when the device is not present
>
> As Linus said its not an error to not have an AMD IOMMU; esp. when you're not
> even running on an AMD platform.
>
> Requested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> ---
>   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_iommu.c | 4 +---
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_iommu.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_iommu.c
> index 0db655e..639d128 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_iommu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd_iommu.c
> @@ -491,10 +491,8 @@ static struct perf_amd_iommu __perf_iommu = {
>   static __init int amd_iommu_pc_init(void)
>   {
>   	/* Make sure the IOMMU PC resource is available */
> -	if (!amd_iommu_pc_supported()) {
> -		pr_err("perf: amd_iommu PMU not installed. No support!\n");
> +	if (!amd_iommu_pc_supported())
>   		return -ENODEV;
> -	}
>   
>   	_init_perf_amd_iommu(&__perf_iommu, "amd_iommu");
>   
Linus, sorry for inconvenience.  This is a mistake in my part.

Peter, thank you for sending out the patch quickly.  I have checked the 
patch and this is okay.

Suravee

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