netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Get rid of consume

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Date:   Sat, 22 Aug 2020 11:08:31 +1000
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Get rid of consume_skb when tracing is off

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 04:40:49PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> I am not completely familiar with CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
> 
> Is "perf probe" support requiring it ?

Yes.

perf probe requires CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS which selects CONFIG_TRACING
which selects CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS.

> We want the following to be supported.
> 
> perf probe consume_skb

That should continue to work as this patch does not change anything
when CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is enabled.

Cheers,
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