Re: [PATCH v2][GIT PULL] tracing: Prevent unloadable modules fromusing trace_bprintk()

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Oct 22 2010 - 04:05:56 EST



* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Ingo,
>
> This is based off of my core-2 branch. I'm moved this patch after that
> so if anyone has any objections, I can change this patch without holding
> off the previous one.
>
> Note, I made the TRACE_BPRINTK_ALLOWED change since it looks better.

Hm, it still looks rather fundamentally ugly, messy and assymetric. Please work out
some better solution with the module folks. If there's really no sane solution then
we better remove this 'speedup' API, it's just not worth it.

Thanks,

Ingo
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