perf kvm top: Limit guest kernel info message to once

'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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 34096275a7b5a6695b5dbf9bc832e8de57d9a112..68cd61ef6ac5440c57579e42a935261d440e20f2 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include "util/cpumap.h"
 #include "util/xyarray.h"
 #include "util/sort.h"
+#include "util/intlist.h"
 
 #include "util/debug.h"
 
@@ -706,8 +707,16 @@ 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 intlist *seen;
+
+               if (!seen)
+                       seen = intlist__new();
+
+               if (!intlist__has_entry(seen, event->ip.pid)) {
+                       pr_err("Can't find guest [%d]'s kernel information\n",
+                               event->ip.pid);
+                       intlist__add(seen, event->ip.pid);
+               }
                return;
        }