linux-kernel - [RFC][PATCH 2/5] tracing/event: Cleanup the useless dentry variable

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Date:	Sat,  1 Aug 2009 09:23:25 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] tracing/event: Cleanup the useless dentry variable

Cleanup the useless dentry variable while creating a kernel
event set of files. trace_create_file() warns if it fails to
create the file anyway, and we don't store the dentry anywhere.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events.c |   23 +++++++++++------------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 90cf936..d8d8434 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -901,9 +901,9 @@ event_subsystem_dir(const char *name, struct dentry *d_events)
 			   "'%s/filter' entry\n", name);
 	}
 
-	entry = trace_create_file("enable", 0644, system->entry,
-				  (void *)system->name,
-				  &ftrace_system_enable_fops);
+	trace_create_file("enable", 0644, system->entry,
+			  (void *)system->name,
+			  &ftrace_system_enable_fops);
 
 	return system->entry;
 }
@@ -941,7 +941,6 @@ event_create_dir(struct ftrace_event_call *call, struct dentry *d_events,
 		 const struct file_operations *filter,
 		 const struct file_operations *format)
 {
-	struct dentry *entry;
 	int ret;
 
 	/*
@@ -968,12 +967,12 @@ event_create_dir(struct ftrace_event_call *call, struct dentry *d_events,
 	}
 
 	if (call->regfunc)
-		entry = trace_create_file("enable", 0644, call->dir, call,
-					  enable);
+		trace_create_file("enable", 0644, call->dir, call,
+				  enable);
 
 	if (call->id)
-		entry = trace_create_file("id", 0444, call->dir, call,
-					  id);
+		trace_create_file("id", 0444, call->dir, call,
+		 		  id);
 
 	if (call->define_fields) {
 		ret = call->define_fields();
@@ -982,16 +981,16 @@ event_create_dir(struct ftrace_event_call *call, struct dentry *d_events,
 				   " events/%s\n", call->name);
 			return ret;
 		}
-		entry = trace_create_file("filter", 0644, call->dir, call,
-					  filter);
+		trace_create_file("filter", 0644, call->dir, call,
+				  filter);
 	}
 
 	/* A trace may not want to export its format */
 	if (!call->show_format)
 		return 0;
 
-	entry = trace_create_file("format", 0444, call->dir, call,
-				  format);
+	trace_create_file("format", 0444, call->dir, call,
+			  format);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.6.2.3

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