linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] kasan: switch kunit tests to console tracepoints

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Date:   Thu, 23 Feb 2023 22:45:07 -0800
From:   Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] kasan: switch kunit tests to console tracepoints

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:33 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:57:40 +0100
> Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, you are right, and it's something I've wondered how to do better
> > as well. Let's try to consult tracing maintainers on what the right
> > approach is.
>
> I have to go and revisit the config options for CONFIG_FTRACE and
> CONFIG_TRACING, as they were added when this all started (back in
> 2008), and the naming was rather all misnomers back then.
>
> "ftrace" is really for just the function tracing, but CONFIG_FTRACE
> really should just be for the function tracing infrastructure, and
> perhaps not even include trace events :-/ But at the time it was
> created, it was for all the "tracers" (this was added before trace
> events).

It would be great to see this cleaned up. I found this aspect of how
tracing works rather confusing.

So do you think it makes sense for the KASAN tests to "select TRACING"
for now if the code depends on the trace event infrastructure?

Peter