This warning message is not very helpful, as the return value should already show information about the error. Also, this message will flush dmesg if the user space do something silly in a loop, like:
for x in {0..5} do echo p:xx xx+$x >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events done Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.wea...@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubrav...@fb.com> --- kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c index 1cd3fb4..02aed76 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c @@ -512,8 +512,6 @@ static int __register_trace_kprobe(struct trace_kprobe *tk) if (ret == 0) tk->tp.flags |= TP_FLAG_REGISTERED; else { - pr_warn("Could not insert probe at %s+%lu: %d\n", - trace_kprobe_symbol(tk), trace_kprobe_offset(tk), ret); if (ret == -ENOENT && trace_kprobe_is_on_module(tk)) { pr_warn("This probe might be able to register after target module is loaded. Continue.\n"); ret = 0; -- 2.9.5