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

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Message-ID: <20130718145544.GA6588@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:55:44 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"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: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] tracing: Kill
	tracing_open/release_generic_file

On 07/18, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>
> (2013/07/18 4:19), Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > Once again, this is just RFC to know your and Masami's opinion. If
> > you think this can work, I'll try to resend this series with the
> > additional bits to cover instance_delete() too. _Afaics_ this needs
> > some temporary uglifications "in between".
>
> I think your proposal goes a good direction, but it also requires
> completeness, because, as I pointed, we have to take care of all
> operations are correctly checked except for open/close.
>
> So, I agree with Steven, I'd like to see a complete patchset.

OK. In fact _I think_ it is almost complete, just this series should
remove tracing_open_generic_file() in the last patch, after we change
__trace_remove_event_dirs() to use invalidate_event_files().

I'll try to finish this series and resend, probably tomorrow.

Oleg.

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