[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: energy driver only print message when LPAR guest

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 11:16:44 AEST 2017


On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 23:03:21 +1000
Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:

> Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > This driver currently reports the H_BEST_ENERGY is unsupported even
> > when booting in a non-LPAR environment (e.g., powernv). Prevent it.  
> 
> Just delete the printk(). Users don't know what that means, and
> developers have other better ways to detect that the hcall is missing if
> anyone cares.
> 
> cheers

powerpc/pseries: energy driver do not print failure message

This driver currently reports the H_BEST_ENERGY is unsupported (even
when booting in a non-LPAR environment). This is not something the
administrator can do much with, and not significant for debugging.

Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pseries_energy.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pseries_energy.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pseries_energy.c
index 164a13d3998a..35c891aabef0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pseries_energy.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/pseries_energy.c
@@ -229,10 +229,9 @@ static int __init pseries_energy_init(void)
 	int cpu, err;
 	struct device *cpu_dev;
 
-	if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_BEST_ENERGY)) {
-		printk(KERN_INFO "Hypercall H_BEST_ENERGY not supported\n");
-		return 0;
-	}
+	if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_BEST_ENERGY))
+		return 0; /* H_BEST_ENERGY hcall not supported */
+
 	/* Create the sysfs files */
 	err = device_create_file(cpu_subsys.dev_root,
 				&attr_cpu_activate_hint_list);
-- 
2.11.0



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