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Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:37:15 +0800
From:	"Zhaolei" <zhaolei@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"Frederic Weisbecker" <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/ftrace: fix the check on nopped sites

* From: "Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> 
> 
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
>> Impact: fix a dynamic tracing failure
>> 
>> Recently, the function and function graph tracers failed to use dynamic
>> tracing after the following commit:
>> 
>> fa9d13cf135efbd454453a53b6299976bea245a9
>> (ftrace: don't try to __ftrace_replace_code on !FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED rec)
>> 
>> The patch is right except a mistake on the check for the FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED
>> flag. The code patching is aborted in case of successfully nopped sites.
>> What we want is the opposite: ignore the callsites that haven't been nopped.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
>> ---
>>  kernel/trace/ftrace.c |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
>> index 90d5729..7847806 100644
>> --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
>> +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
>> @@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ static void ftrace_replace_code(int enable)
>>  */
>>  if (rec->flags & FTRACE_FL_FREE ||
>>      rec->flags & FTRACE_FL_FAILED ||
>> -     rec->flags & FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED)
>> +     !(rec->flags & FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED))
>>  continue;
>>  
>>  /* ignore updates to this record's mcount site */
>> -- 
Hello, 

Sorry for my fault.

B.R.
Zhaolei
> 
> Heh, I just found this bug too, and wrote a patch. But you posted before I 
> did, so I'll let you have it ;-)
> 
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 
>

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