linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip 2/2] Tracing/fastboot: Get the initcall name before it disappears

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Message-ID: <20081002120231.GB14322@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:02:31 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 2/2] Tracing/fastboot: Get the initcall name
	before it disappears


* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:

> After some initcall traces, some initcall names may be inconsistent.
> That's because these functions will disappear from the .init section
> and also their name from the symbols table.
> So we have to copy the name of the function in a buffer large enough
> during the trace appending. It is not costly for the ring_buffer because
> the number of initcall entries is commonly not really large.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>

applied to tip/tracing/fastboot, thanks Frederic,

	Ingo
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