linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] tracing: Kill tracing_open/release_generic

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Message-ID: <1374004295.6458.59.camel@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:51:35 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	"zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhangwei@...wei.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] tracing: Kill tracing_open/release_generic_file

On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 20:57 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Kill tracing_open_generic_file() and tracing_release_generic_file(),
> they are racy anyway.
> 
> Instead, change event_enable_read() and event_enable_write() to rely
> on event_mutex and file_inode(filp)->i_private != NULL check.
> 
> trace_array_get() goes away. NOTE! this is actually wrong until we
> change instance_delete() path to nullify ->i_private.

I think this needs to be done first. Want me to take a crack at it, and
we can interleave our patches if needed.

-- Steve


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