design of tracepoints and how a user could register a tracepoint
and have that tracepoint not be activated but no error was shown.
The design was for an out of tree module but broke in tree users.
The clean up was to remove the saving of the hash table of tracepoint
names such that they can be enabled before they exist (enabling
a module tracepoint before that module is loaded). This added more
complexity than needed. The clean up was to remove that code and
just enable tracepoints that exist or fail if they do not.
This removed a lot of code as well as the complexity that it brought.
As a side effect, instead of registering a tracepoint by its name,
the tracepoint needs to be registered with the tracepoint descriptor.
This removes having to duplicate the tracepoint names that are
enabled.
The second patch was added that simplified the way modules were
searched for.
This cleanup required changes that were in the 3.15 queue as well as
some changes that were added late in the 3.14-rc cycle. This final
change waited till the two were merged in upstream and then the
change was added and full tests were run. Unfortunately, the
test found some errors, but after it was already submitted to the
for-next branch and not to be rebased. Sparse errors were detected
by Fengguang Wu's bot tests, and my internal tests discovered that
the anonymous union initialization triggered a bug in older gcc compilers.
Luckily, there was a bugzilla for the gcc bug which gave a work around
to the problem. The third and fourth patch handled the sparse error
and the gcc bug respectively.
A final patch was tagged along to fix a missing documentation for
the README file.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.15-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"This includes the final patch to clean up and fix the issue with the
design of tracepoints and how a user could register a tracepoint and
have that tracepoint not be activated but no error was shown.
The design was for an out of tree module but broke in tree users. The
clean up was to remove the saving of the hash table of tracepoint
names such that they can be enabled before they exist (enabling a
module tracepoint before that module is loaded). This added more
complexity than needed. The clean up was to remove that code and just
enable tracepoints that exist or fail if they do not.
This removed a lot of code as well as the complexity that it brought.
As a side effect, instead of registering a tracepoint by its name, the
tracepoint needs to be registered with the tracepoint descriptor.
This removes having to duplicate the tracepoint names that are
enabled.
The second patch was added that simplified the way modules were
searched for.
This cleanup required changes that were in the 3.15 queue as well as
some changes that were added late in the 3.14-rc cycle. This final
change waited till the two were merged in upstream and then the change
was added and full tests were run. Unfortunately, the test found some
errors, but after it was already submitted to the for-next branch and
not to be rebased. Sparse errors were detected by Fengguang Wu's bot
tests, and my internal tests discovered that the anonymous union
initialization triggered a bug in older gcc compilers. Luckily, there
was a bugzilla for the gcc bug which gave a work around to the
problem. The third and fourth patch handled the sparse error and the
gcc bug respectively.
A final patch was tagged along to fix a missing documentation for the
README file"
* tag 'trace-3.15-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Add missing function triggers dump and cpudump to README
tracing: Fix anonymous unions in struct ftrace_event_call
tracepoint: Fix sparse warnings in tracepoint.c
tracepoint: Simplify tracepoint module search
tracepoint: Use struct pointer instead of name hash for reg/unreg tracepoints
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