linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing/lockdep: turn lock->name into an array

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Message-ID: <49E8BB98.3090901@goop.org>
Date:	Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:25:44 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Zhaolei <zhaolei@...fujitsu.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/lockdep: turn lock->name into an array

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> We could zap all pending trace entries on module unload (it is a 
> rare operation)

...Unless you're trying to trace something across a module unload.  I 
don't know if its at all practical, but it would be nice to just zap the 
pointers within the buffer, rather than the whole buffer.

    J
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