From: Kan Liang <kan.li...@intel.com>

On older (e.g. v4.4) kernels, an annoying fallback message can be
observed in 'perf top':

        ┌─Warning:──────────────────────┐
        │fall back to non-overwrite mode│
        │                               │
        │                               │
        │Press any key...               │
        └───────────────────────────────┘

The 'perf top' utility has been changed to overwrite mode since commit
ebebbf082357 ("perf top: Switch default mode to overwrite mode").

For older kernels which don't have overwrite mode support, 'perf top'
will fall back to non-overwrite mode and print out the fallback message
using ui__warning(), which needs user's input to close.

The fallback message is not critical for end users. Turning it to debug
message which is printed when running with -vv.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.li...@intel.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.li...@intel.com>
Fixes: ebebbf082357 ("perf top: Switch default mode to overwrite mode")
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519669030-176549-1-git-send-email-kan.li...@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index b7c823ba8374..35ac016fcb98 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ static int perf_top_overwrite_fallback(struct perf_top *top,
        evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, counter)
                counter->attr.write_backward = false;
        opts->overwrite = false;
-       ui__warning("fall back to non-overwrite mode\n");
+       pr_debug2("fall back to non-overwrite mode\n");
        return 1;
 }
 
-- 
2.14.3

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