* kan.li...@intel.com <kan.li...@intel.com> wrote:
> From: Kan Liang <kan.li...@intel.com>
>
> On older (v4.4) kernels, the annoying fallback message can be observed
> in 'perf top'.
>
> The 'perf top' has been changed to overwrite mode since
> 'commit ebebbf082357 ("perf top: Switch default mode to overwrite mode")'
> For the older kernels which don't have overwrite mode support, the 'perf
> top' will fall back to non-overwrite mode and print out the fallback
> message by ui__warning, which needs user's input to close.
>
> The fallback message is not critical message for end users. Turning it
> to debug message which is printed when running with -vv.
>
> Fixes: ebebbf082357 ("perf top: Switch default mode to overwrite mode")
> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.li...@intel.com>
> ---
> tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
> index b7c823b..35ac016 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
> @@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ static int perf_top_overwrite_fallback(struct perf_top
> *top,
> evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, counter)
> counter->attr.write_backward = false;
> opts->overwrite = false;
> - ui__warning("fall back to non-overwrite mode\n");
> + pr_debug2("fall back to non-overwrite mode\n");
> return 1;
> }
Thanks!
Ingo
