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Message-ID: <20200710011119.GB51939@L-31X9LVDL-1304.local>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:11:19 +0800
From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] tracing: toplevel d_entry already initialized
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 06:13:59PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 10:06:12 +0800
>Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
>> Currently we have following call flow:
>>
>> tracer_init_tracefs()
>> tracing_init_dentry()
>> event_trace_init()
>> tracing_init_dentry()
>>
>> This shows tracing_init_dentry() is called twice in this flow and this
>> is not necessary.
>
>There's no reason to have patch 4 and 5 separate. Fold the two together.
>
Yep, if you think there is no need.
Do you want me to send v2 based on you comments?
>If you want, you can create another patch that changes
>tracing_init_dentry() to return a integer, as you point out, it never
>returns an actual dentry. No reason for having it return a pointer then.
>
>-- Steve
>
>
>>
>> Let's remove the second one when it is for sure be properly initialized.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>
>> ---
>> kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 5 -----
>> 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
>> index 8b3aa57dcea6..76879b29cf33 100644
>> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
>> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
>> @@ -3434,7 +3434,6 @@ early_initcall(event_trace_enable_again);
>> __init int event_trace_init(void)
>> {
>> struct trace_array *tr;
>> - struct dentry *d_tracer;
>> struct dentry *entry;
>> int ret;
>>
>> @@ -3442,10 +3441,6 @@ __init int event_trace_init(void)
>> if (!tr)
>> return -ENODEV;
>>
>> - d_tracer = tracing_init_dentry();
>> - if (IS_ERR(d_tracer))
>> - return 0;
>> -
>> entry = tracefs_create_file("available_events", 0444, NULL,
>> tr, &ftrace_avail_fops);
>> if (!entry)
--
Wei Yang
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