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Eyal Moscovici fab0aa3b77 KVM: x86: Allow suppressing prints on RDMSR/WRMSR of unhandled MSRs
Some guests use these unhandled MSRs very frequently.
This cause dmesg to be populated with lots of aggregated messages on
usage of ignored MSRs. As ignore_msrs=true means that the user is
well-aware his guest use ignored MSRs, allow to also disable the
prints on their usage.

An example of such guest is ESXi which tends to access a lot to MSR
0x34 (MSR_SMI_COUNT) very frequently.

In addition, we have observed this to cause unnecessary delays to
guest execution. Such an example is ESXi which experience networking
delays in it's guests (L2 guests) because of these prints (even when
prints are rate-limited). This can easily be reproduced by pinging
from one L2 guest to another.  Once in a while, a peak in ping RTT
will be observed. Removing these unhandled MSR prints solves the
issue.

Because these prints can help diagnose issues with guests,
this commit only suppress them by a module parameter instead of
removing them from code entirely.

Signed-off-by: Eyal Moscovici <eyal.moscovici@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
[Changed suppress_ignore_msrs_prints to report_ignored_msrs - Radim]
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
2017-11-17 13:20:16 +01:00
arch KVM: x86: Allow suppressing prints on RDMSR/WRMSR of unhandled MSRs 2017-11-17 13:20:16 +01:00
block block/blk-mq.c: use kmalloc_array_node() 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
certs
crypto kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2017-11-15 18:21:04 -08:00
Documentation GICv4 Support for KVM/ARM for v4.15 2017-11-17 13:20:01 +01:00
drivers ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.15 2017-11-16 16:05:01 -08:00
firmware
fs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2017-11-16 12:50:35 -08:00
include GICv4 Support for KVM/ARM for v4.15 2017-11-17 13:20:01 +01:00
init Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-15 19:42:40 -08:00
ipc
kernel Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-11-16 12:20:15 -08:00
lib Driver core patches for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-16 08:55:30 -08:00
mm virtio, vhost, qemu: bugfixes, cleanups 2017-11-16 13:14:46 -08:00
net Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-15 19:42:40 -08:00
samples media updates for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-15 20:30:12 -08:00
scripts main drm pull request for v4.15 2017-11-15 20:42:10 -08:00
security Modules updates for v4.15 2017-11-15 13:46:33 -08:00
sound sound updates for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-14 18:01:46 -08:00
tools First batch of KVM changes for 4.15 2017-11-16 13:00:24 -08:00
usr
virt GICv4 Support for KVM/ARM for v4.15 2017-11-17 13:20:01 +01:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes
.gitignore
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.15 2017-11-16 16:05:01 -08:00
Makefile RISC-V Port for Linux 4.15 v9 2017-11-15 10:49:15 -08:00
README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.