Re: [PATCH] tracing: fix event_subsystem ref counting

[Li Zefan]

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 11:07 +0200, Ilya Dryomov wrote:
>> Fix a bug introduced by e9dbfae5, which prevents event_subsystem from
>> ever being released.
>>
>> Ref_count was added to keep track of subsystem users, not for counting
>> events.  Subsystem is created with ref_count = 1, so there is no need to
>> increment it for every event, we have nr_events for that.  Fix this by
>> touching ref_count only when we actually have a new user -
>> subsystem_open().
> 
> Good catch, I'll pull this in.
> 

I made a different fix last week:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131978486911595&w=2

but I guess Ilya's version is a bit better.
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