From: "Charles (Chas) Williams" <ciwil...@brocade.com> A NO_HZ_FULL kernel needs to have a stable clock source like a non-stop (or invariant) TSC. Unfortunately, this CPU feature/flag isn't advertised by most hypervisors because they want the ability to migrate or save virtual machines which would affect the TSC.
This means that a kernel with NO_HZ_FULL configured would often generate a kernel traceback on boot which causes users to generate false alarms. NO_HZ_FULL is an optimization not a hard requirement. Keep the message, just lose the traceback. Signed-off-by: Charles (Chas) Williams <ciwillia at brocade.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> --- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 7c7ec45..2e1c90c 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -188,8 +188,8 @@ static bool can_stop_full_tick(void) * Don't allow the user to think they can get * full NO_HZ with this machine. */ - WARN_ONCE(tick_nohz_full_running, - "NO_HZ FULL will not work with unstable sched clock"); + if (tick_nohz_full_running) + pr_notice_once("NO_HZ FULL will not work with unstable sched clock\n"); return false; } #endif -- 2.1.4