linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/11] perf tools: Add tracing

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Date:	Sat, 29 Aug 2015 12:25:52 +0200
From:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Raphaël Beamonte <raphael.beamonte@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] perf tools: Add tracing_path and remove unneeded
 functions

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 01:27:22PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 11:47:19PM +0100, Matt Fleming escreveu:
> > On Wed, 26 Aug, at 03:46:44PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > There's no need for find_tracing_dir, because perf already
> > > searches for debugfs/tracefs mount on start and populate
> > > tracing_events_path.
> >  
> > I'm getting a bit lost searching through the git history of these
> > functions. Why is it safe to delete these functions? Where did the old
> > user that required find_tracing_dir() to mount debugfs disappear to?
> > 
> > The code to do the mount of debugfs/tracefs when perf starts appears
> > to have been around for years. Is the mounting operation of
> > find_tracing_dir() just dead code?

yep, I'll address that in v2.. found TODO in fs.c ;-)

jirka
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