Re: [PATCH] trace: Don't declare trace_*_rcuidle functions inmodules

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 23:23 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Tracepoints declare a static inline trace_*_rcuidle variant of the trace
> function, to support safely generating trace events from the idle loop.
> Module code never actually uses that variant of trace functions, because
> modules don't run code that needs tracing with RCU idled.  However, the
> declaration of those otherwise unused functions causes the module to
> reference rcu_idle_exit and rcu_idle_enter, which RCU does not export to
> modules.
> 
> To avoid this, don't generate trace_*_rcuidle functions for tracepoints
> declared in module code.
> 
> Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve


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