[PATCH] drivers/perf: arm-ccn: stop spamming dmesg in event_init

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Fri May 4 03:41:17 PDT 2018


The ARM CCN PMU driver uses dev_warn() to complain about parameters in
the user-provided perf_event_attr. This means that under normal
operation (e.g. a single invocation of the perf tool), dmesg may be
spammed with multiple messages.

Tools may issue multiple syscalls to probe for feature support, and
multiple applications (from multiple users) can attempt to open events
simultaneously, so this is not very helpful, even if a user happens to
have access to dmesg. Worse, this can push important information out of
the dmesg ring buffer, and can significantly slow down syscall fuzzers,
vastly increasing the time it takes to find critical bugs.

Demote the dev_warn() instances to dev_dbg(), as is the case for all
other PMU drivers under drivers/perf/. Users who wish to debug PMU event
initialisation can enable dynamic debug to receive these messages.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 drivers/perf/arm-ccn.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm-ccn.c b/drivers/perf/arm-ccn.c
index 65b7e4042ece..07771e28f572 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm-ccn.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm-ccn.c
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static int arm_ccn_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 	ccn = pmu_to_arm_ccn(event->pmu);
 
 	if (hw->sample_period) {
-		dev_warn(ccn->dev, "Sampling not supported!\n");
+		dev_dbg(ccn->dev, "Sampling not supported!\n");
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}
 
@@ -744,12 +744,12 @@ static int arm_ccn_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 			event->attr.exclude_kernel || event->attr.exclude_hv ||
 			event->attr.exclude_idle || event->attr.exclude_host ||
 			event->attr.exclude_guest) {
-		dev_warn(ccn->dev, "Can't exclude execution levels!\n");
+		dev_dbg(ccn->dev, "Can't exclude execution levels!\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	if (event->cpu < 0) {
-		dev_warn(ccn->dev, "Can't provide per-task data!\n");
+		dev_dbg(ccn->dev, "Can't provide per-task data!\n");
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}
 	/*
@@ -771,13 +771,13 @@ static int arm_ccn_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 	switch (type) {
 	case CCN_TYPE_MN:
 		if (node_xp != ccn->mn_id) {
-			dev_warn(ccn->dev, "Invalid MN ID %d!\n", node_xp);
+			dev_dbg(ccn->dev, "Invalid MN ID %d!\n", node_xp);
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 		break;
 	case CCN_TYPE_XP:
 		if (node_xp >= ccn->num_xps) {
-			dev_warn(ccn->dev, "Invalid XP ID %d!\n", node_xp);
+			dev_dbg(ccn->dev, "Invalid XP ID %d!\n", node_xp);
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 		break;
@@ -785,11 +785,11 @@ static int arm_ccn_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 		break;
 	default:
 		if (node_xp >= ccn->num_nodes) {
-			dev_warn(ccn->dev, "Invalid node ID %d!\n", node_xp);
+			dev_dbg(ccn->dev, "Invalid node ID %d!\n", node_xp);
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 		if (!arm_ccn_pmu_type_eq(type, ccn->node[node_xp].type)) {
-			dev_warn(ccn->dev, "Invalid type 0x%x for node %d!\n",
+			dev_dbg(ccn->dev, "Invalid type 0x%x for node %d!\n",
 					type, node_xp);
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
@@ -808,19 +808,19 @@ static int arm_ccn_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 		if (event_id != e->event)
 			continue;
 		if (e->num_ports && port >= e->num_ports) {
-			dev_warn(ccn->dev, "Invalid port %d for node/XP %d!\n",
+			dev_dbg(ccn->dev, "Invalid port %d for node/XP %d!\n",
 					port, node_xp);
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 		if (e->num_vcs && vc >= e->num_vcs) {
-			dev_warn(ccn->dev, "Invalid vc %d for node/XP %d!\n",
+			dev_dbg(ccn->dev, "Invalid vc %d for node/XP %d!\n",
 					vc, node_xp);
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 		valid = 1;
 	}
 	if (!valid) {
-		dev_warn(ccn->dev, "Invalid event 0x%x for node/XP %d!\n",
+		dev_dbg(ccn->dev, "Invalid event 0x%x for node/XP %d!\n",
 				event_id, node_xp);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
-- 
2.11.0




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