[PATCH 2/7] ring-buffer: remove useless warn on check

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Jun 17 2009 - 19:27:45 EST


From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>

A check if "write > BUF_PAGE_SIZE" is done right after a

if (write > BUF_PAGE_SIZE)
return ...;

Thus the check is actually testing the compiler and not the
kernel. This is useless, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 3 ---
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 6b17a11..6cf340e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1334,9 +1334,6 @@ __rb_reserve_next(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,

/* We reserved something on the buffer */

- if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, write > BUF_PAGE_SIZE))
- return NULL;
-
event = __rb_page_index(tail_page, tail);
rb_update_event(event, type, length);

--
1.6.3.1

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