Re: [PATCH -tip 2/2] Tracing/fastboot: Get the initcall namebefore it disappears

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Oct 02 2008 - 08:02:55 EST



* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> After some initcall traces, some initcall names may be inconsistent.
> That's because these functions will disappear from the .init section
> and also their name from the symbols table.
> So we have to copy the name of the function in a buffer large enough
> during the trace appending. It is not costly for the ring_buffer because
> the number of initcall entries is commonly not really large.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>

applied to tip/tracing/fastboot, thanks Frederic,

Ingo
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