linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] tracing: sorttable: Add a tracepoint verification check at build time

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Message-ID: <20250723183343.77489168@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:33:43 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
 llvm@...ts.linux.dev, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>, Mark Rutland
 <mark.rutland@....com>, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, Nathan Chancellor
 <nathan@...nel.org>, Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>, Nick
 Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@...il.com>, Catalin Marinas
 <catalin.marinas@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] tracing: sorttable: Add a tracepoint
 verification check at build time

On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:27:01 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> Looks like it will require a separate application to search the vmlinux.o
> instead of the vmlinux (which sorttable does).
> 
> I could probably take some of the sorttable.c elf parsing and move that
> into a header that would share the code.

Anyway, I'll just drop these patches for now as I don't have time to
rewrite it. I'll at least put together the unused events that I've already
removed and send that out for the next merge window.

-- Steve