'perf kvm top' shows a continual flurry of: Can't find guest [5201]'s kernel information
if it can't find the guest info and with a lot of VMs running a user has no chance of reading them all. Limit message to once per guest. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> --- tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c index 1706dc9..6285374 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c @@ -706,8 +706,18 @@ static void perf_event__process_sample(struct perf_tool *tool, int err; if (!machine && perf_guest) { - pr_err("Can't find guest [%d]'s kernel information\n", - event->ip.pid); + static struct strlist *seen; + char pidstr[8]; + + if (!seen) + seen = strlist__new(true, NULL); + + scnprintf(pidstr, sizeof(pidstr), "%d", event->ip.pid); + if (!strlist__has_entry(seen, pidstr)) { + pr_err("Can't find guest [%d]'s kernel information\n", + event->ip.pid); + strlist__add(seen, pidstr); + } return; } -- 1.7.10.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/