linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] tracing: Don't return -EINVAL when tracing soft disabled synth events

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Date:   Tue, 11 Feb 2020 22:28:56 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>, artem.bityutskiy@...ux.intel.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] tracing: Don't return -EINVAL when tracing soft
 disabled synth events

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:24:15 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:06:49 -0600
> Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > There's no reason to return -EINVAL when tracing a synthetic event if
> > it's soft disabled - treat it the same as if it were hard disabled and
> > return normally.
> > 
> > Have synth_event_trace() and synth_event_trace_array() just return
> > normally, and have synth_event_trace_start set the trace state to
> > disabled and return.
> >   
> 
> Looks good to me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> 

Thanks for the review Masami, but these patches have already landed in
Linus's tree ;-)

-- Steve