Borislav Petkov f3f07ae425 x86/umip: Downgrade warning messages to debug loglevel ...

After four years in the wild, those have not fullfilled their
initial purpose of pushing people to fix their software to not use
UMIP-emulated instructions, and to warn users about the degraded
emulation performance.

Yet, the only thing that "degrades" performance is overflowing dmesg
with those:

  [Di Sep  7 00:24:05 2021] umip_printk: 1345 callbacks suppressed
  [Di Sep  7 00:24:05 2021] umip: someapp.exe[29231] ip:14064cdba sp:11b7c0: SIDT instruction cannot be used by applications.
  [Di Sep  7 00:24:05 2021] umip: someapp.exe[29231] ip:14064cdba sp:11b7c0: For now, expensive software emulation returns the result.
  ...
  [Di Sep  7 00:26:06 2021] umip_printk: 2227 callbacks suppressed
  [Di Sep  7 00:26:06 2021] umip: someapp.exe[29231] ip:14064cdba sp:11b940: SIDT instruction cannot be used by applications.

and users don't really care about that - they just want to play their
games in wine.

So convert those to debug loglevel - in case someone is still interested
in them, someone can boot with "debug" on the kernel cmdline.

Reported-by: Marcus Rückert <mrueckert@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210907200454.30458-1-bp@alien8.de

2021-09-25 13:23:28 +02:00

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