linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] tracing/kselftests: Remove triggers with references before their definitions

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Date:   Wed, 27 Oct 2021 19:54:54 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@...gle.com>
Cc:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>, surenb@...gle.com,
        hridya@...gle.com, namhyung@...nel.org, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] tracing/kselftests: Remove triggers with references
 before their definitions

On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:26:00 -0700
Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@...gle.com> wrote:

> > Why don't you use 'tac'? I love that idea :)
> > Did you find any issue?  
> 
> Hi Masami,
> 
> Thanks for the reviews. As with the first set of patches using tac
> gives a regression here, though I'm not sure why it doesn't work -- I
> also thought reversing the order would handle any dependencies
> correctly.

Right, because are triggers not added by list_add_rcu() which adds to
the head of the list. If anything, shouldn't things be removed in order?

-- Steve