linux/arch/x86
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
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boot Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 16:58:05 -08:00
configs x86/unwind: Rename unwinder config options to 'CONFIG_UNWINDER_*' 2017-10-14 10:12:12 +02:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-14 10:52:09 -08:00
entry xen: features and fixes for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-16 13:06:27 -08:00
events Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 16:58:05 -08:00
hyperv Char/Misc patches for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-16 09:10:59 -08:00
ia32 License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
include KVM: x86: Don't re-execute instruction when not passing CR2 value 2017-11-17 13:20:12 +01:00
kernel xen: features and fixes for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-16 13:06:27 -08:00
kvm KVM: x86: Allow suppressing prints on RDMSR/WRMSR of unhandled MSRs 2017-11-17 13:20:16 +01:00
lib Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 14:13:48 -08:00
math-emu License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mm mm, sparse: do not swamp log with huge vmemmap allocation failures 2017-11-15 18:21:07 -08:00
net bpf: fix bpf_tail_call() x64 JIT 2017-10-03 16:04:44 -07:00
oprofile Modules updates for v4.15 2017-11-15 13:46:33 -08:00
pci pci-v4.15-changes 2017-11-15 15:01:28 -08:00
platform kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2017-11-15 18:21:04 -08:00
power License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
purgatory License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
ras License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
realmode x86/realmode: Don't decrypt trampoline area under SEV 2017-11-07 15:35:55 +01:00
tools License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
um Merge branch 'linus' into x86/asm, to pick up fixes and resolve conflicts 2017-11-07 10:53:06 +01:00
video
xen xen: features and fixes for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-16 13:06:27 -08:00
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Kbuild Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-07 09:25:15 -07:00
Kconfig x86/mm/kasan: don't use vmemmap_populate() to initialize shadow 2017-11-15 18:21:05 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'linus' into x86/asm, to pick up fixes and resolve conflicts 2017-11-07 10:53:06 +01:00
Makefile kmemcheck: remove annotations 2017-11-15 18:21:04 -08:00
Makefile_32.cpu License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Makefile.um License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00