linux-kernel - Re: ftrace and debugfs weird interaction

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Date:	Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:36:45 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ftrace and debugfs weird interaction

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 02:54:03PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When trying to figure out what was going on with the sched tracer
> "tracing_enabled" file (sched-devel.git tree), I fell on this strange
> behavior :
> 
> echo 1>tracing_enabled seems _not_ to send 1 to the tracing_ctrl_write
> callback. However, sending garbage, e.g. echo s> tracing_enabled,
> correctly sends the 's' character down the chain. echo 0>tracing_enabled
> sometimes results in the callback not even being called.
> 
> The debugfs file has been created with
> 
>         entry = debugfs_create_file("tracing_enabled", 0644, d_tracer,
>                                     &global_trace, &tracing_ctrl_fops);
>         if (!entry)
>                 pr_warning("Could not create debugfs 'tracing_enabled' entry\n");
> 
> I wonder what kind of weird debugfs interaction we might have here ?

I don't know.  Are you sure your _fops is not getting called at all?

How about using a "default" operation for such a simple file, like
debugfs_create_bool() as that is all you care about for this kind of
value?

That should save you some code at the very least :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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