watchdog, nmi: Lower the severity of error messages

During boot if the hardlockup detector fails to initialize, it
complains very loudly.  Some failures should be expected under
certain situations, ie no lapics, or resource in-use.  Tone
those error messages down a bit.  Keep the rest at a high level.

Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1297278153-21111-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index f37f974aa81b..18bb15776c57 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -363,8 +363,14 @@ static int watchdog_nmi_enable(int cpu)
                 goto out_save;
         }
 
-        printk(KERN_ERR "NMI watchdog disabled for cpu%i: unable to create perf event: %ld\n",
-               cpu, PTR_ERR(event));
+
+        /* vary the KERN level based on the returned errno */
+        if (PTR_ERR(event) == -EOPNOTSUPP)
+                printk(KERN_INFO "NMI watchdog disabled (cpu%i): not supported (no LAPIC?)\n", cpu);
+        else if (PTR_ERR(event) == -ENOENT)
+                printk(KERN_WARNING "NMI watchdog disabled (cpu%i): hardware events not enabled\n", cpu);
+        else
+                printk(KERN_ERR "NMI watchdog disabled (cpu%i): unable to create perf event: %ld\n", cpu, PTR_ERR(event));
         return PTR_ERR(event);
 
         /* success path */