From 4485154138f6ffa5b252cb490aba3e8eb30124e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:04:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel: Avoid spamming kernel log for BTS buffer failure It's unnecessary to excessively spam the kernel log anytime the BTS buffer cannot be allocated, so make this allocation __GFP_NOWARN. The user probably will want to at least find some artifact that the allocation has failed in the past, probably due to fragmentation because of its large size, when it's not allocated at bootstrap. Thus, add a WARN_ONCE() so something is left behind for them to understand why perf commnads that require PEBS is not working properly. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1406301600460.26302@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c index 980970cb744d..696ade311ded 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c @@ -311,9 +311,11 @@ static int alloc_bts_buffer(int cpu) if (!x86_pmu.bts) return 0; - buffer = kzalloc_node(BTS_BUFFER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, node); - if (unlikely(!buffer)) + buffer = kzalloc_node(BTS_BUFFER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN, node); + if (unlikely(!buffer)) { + WARN_ONCE(1, "%s: BTS buffer allocation failure\n", __func__); return -ENOMEM; + } max = BTS_BUFFER_SIZE / BTS_RECORD_SIZE; thresh = max / 16; -- GitLab