From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" Make use of the swap macro and remove unnecessary variable _buf_. This makes the code easier to read and maintain. Also, reduces the stack usage. This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180209175316.GA18720@embeddedgus Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index c9336e98ac59..a0079b4c7a49 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -1360,8 +1360,6 @@ __update_max_tr(struct trace_array *tr, struct task_struct *tsk, int cpu) void update_max_tr(struct trace_array *tr, struct task_struct *tsk, int cpu) { - struct ring_buffer *buf; - if (tr->stop_count) return; @@ -1375,9 +1373,7 @@ update_max_tr(struct trace_array *tr, struct task_struct *tsk, int cpu) arch_spin_lock(&tr->max_lock); - buf = tr->trace_buffer.buffer; - tr->trace_buffer.buffer = tr->max_buffer.buffer; - tr->max_buffer.buffer = buf; + swap(tr->trace_buffer.buffer, tr->max_buffer.buffer); __update_max_tr(tr, tsk, cpu); arch_spin_unlock(&tr->max_lock); -- 2.17.1