Re: [PATCH] ftrace: Remove a superfluous check

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Mar 29 2012 - 13:26:26 EST


On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 07:17:19PM +0200, John Kacur wrote:

> It looks okay to me. Technically it's not functionally equivalent
> though, because now when __register_ftrace_function is called
> directly, (in other paths), the test has an unlikely there.

I know, but ftrace_disabled is really unlikely to be set to 1 because
we set it only if ftrace_init() fails and on the panic path in
ftrace_kill().

So I agree that it is not functionally completely equivalent but it
should be correct with the unlikely.

> See what teven says, otherwise, you can have my reviewed by.

Thanks.

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