linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 05/30] KVM: Provide more information in kernel log if hardware enabling fails

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Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:20:34 -0700
From:   isaku.yamahata@...el.com
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     isaku.yamahata@...el.com, isaku.yamahata@...il.com,
        Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>, Chao Gao <chao.gao@...el.com>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@...shpatra.org>,
        Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@...ilicon.com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: [PATCH v5 05/30] KVM: Provide more information in kernel log if hardware enabling fails

From: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...el.com>

Provide the name of the calling function to hardware_enable_nolock() and
include it in the error message to provide additional information on
exactly what path failed.

Opportunistically bump the pr_info() to pr_warn(), failure to enable
virtualization support is warn-worthy as _something_ is wrong with the
system.

Suggested-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...el.com>
---
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 4243a9541543..4f19c47aab1c 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -5006,7 +5006,8 @@ static void hardware_enable_nolock(void *junk)
 	if (r) {
 		cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, cpus_hardware_enabled);
 		atomic_inc(&hardware_enable_failed);
-		pr_info("kvm: enabling virtualization on CPU%d failed\n", cpu);
+		pr_warn("kvm: enabling virtualization on CPU%d failed during %pSb\n",
+			cpu, __builtin_return_address(0));
 	}
 }
 
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