[PATCH v3] watchdog: Quiet down the boot messages

From: Don Zickus
Date: Mon Jun 11 2012 - 16:04:35 EST


A bunch of bugzillas have complained how noisy the nmi_watchdog is during
boot-up especially with its expected failure cases (like virt and bios
resource contention).

This is my attempt to quiet them down and keep it less confusing for the end
user. What I did is print the message for cpu0 and save it for future
comparisons. If future cpus have an identical message as cpu0, then don't
print the redundant info. However, if a future cpu has a different message,
happily print that loudly.

Before the change, you would see something like:

..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz stepping 0a
Performance Events: PEBS fmt0+, Core2 events, Intel PMU driver.
... version: 2
... bit width: 40
... generic registers: 2
... value mask: 000000ffffffffff
... max period: 000000007fffffff
... fixed-purpose events: 3
... event mask: 0000000700000003
NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.
Booting Node 0, Processors #1
NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.
#2
NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.
#3 Ok.
NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.
Brought up 4 CPUs
Total of 4 processors activated (22607.24 BogoMIPS).

After the change, it is simplified to:

..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz stepping 0a
Performance Events: PEBS fmt0+, Core2 events, Intel PMU driver.
... version: 2
... bit width: 40
... generic registers: 2
... value mask: 000000ffffffffff
... max period: 000000007fffffff
... fixed-purpose events: 3
... event mask: 0000000700000003
NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.
Booting Node 0, Processors #1 #2 #3 Ok.
Brought up 4 CPUs

V2: little changes based on Joe Perches' feedback
V3: printk cleanup based on Ingo's feedback; checkpatch fix

Reported-and-tested-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/watchdog.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index e5e1d85..74b1e27 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -377,6 +377,13 @@ static int watchdog_nmi_enable(int cpu)
struct perf_event_attr *wd_attr;
struct perf_event *event = per_cpu(watchdog_ev, cpu);

+ /*
+ * People like the simple clean cpu node info on boot.
+ * Reduce the watchdog noise by only printing messages
+ * that are different from what cpu0 displayed.
+ */
+ static unsigned long cpu0_err;
+
/* is it already setup and enabled? */
if (event && event->state > PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF)
goto out;
@@ -390,11 +397,23 @@ static int watchdog_nmi_enable(int cpu)

/* Try to register using hardware perf events */
event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(wd_attr, cpu, NULL, watchdog_overflow_callback, NULL);
+
+ /* save cpu0 error for future comparision */
+ if (cpu == 0 && IS_ERR(event))
+ cpu0_err = PTR_ERR(event);
+
if (!IS_ERR(event)) {
- pr_info("enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.\n");
+ /* only print for cpu0 or different than cpu0 */
+ if (cpu == 0 || cpu0_err) {
+ pr_info("enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes ");
+ pr_cont("one hw-PMU counter.\n");
+ }
goto out_save;
}

+ /* skip displaying the same error again */
+ if (cpu > 0 && (PTR_ERR(event) == cpu0_err))
+ return PTR_ERR(event);

/* vary the KERN level based on the returned errno */
if (PTR_ERR(event) == -EOPNOTSUPP)
--
1.7.7.6

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