linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing: Register static events output early

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Message-ID: <20110518234015.GB1723@nowhere>
Date:	Thu, 19 May 2011 01:40:18 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Register static events output early

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:37:19PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 01:29 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
> > index cf535cc..ad92d9c 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
> > @@ -1278,4 +1278,4 @@ __init static int init_events(void)
> >  
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> > -device_initcall(init_events);
> > +early_initcall(init_events);
> 
> Hmm, careful here. The ring buffers are also allocated at early_init().
> 
> But you may be OK, as things like trace_printk() don't do anything if
> "tracing_disabled" is set, and it's set on bootup and cleared after we
> allocate the buffers.

Yep, and the output callback only impact the read side anyway, once the trace
has been already pulled out of the buffer. I hope I'm not missing something in the
way...
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