Re: [PATCH] tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation

[Li Zefan]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> init_preds() allocates about 5392 bytes of memory (on x86_32) for
>> a TRACE_EVENT. With my config, at system boot total memory occupied
>> is:
>>
>> 	5392 * (642 + 15) == 3459KB
>>
>> 642 == cat available_events | wc -l
>> 15 == number of dirs in events/ftrace
>>
>> That's quite a lot, so we'd better defer memory allocation util
>> it's needed, that's when filter is used.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Applied, thanks!
> 
>> tracing/kprobe needs rebase after this patch..
> 
> You mean with many probes registered it has a lot of memory 

I think so, if filter is used.

> footprint? Instead of a rebase a merge of tracing/core into 
> tracing/kprobes would be less intrusive.
> 

Yeah, I meant this patch conflicts with some patches in
tracing/kprobe. :)

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