Re: [for-next][PATCH 0/8] tracing: Addition of multiple buffers

[David Sharp]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With this patch set, a new directory is created in the debug/tracing
> directory called "instances". Here you can mkdir/rmdir a new directory
> that will contain some of the files in the debug/tracing directory.
> Note, this is not totally finished, but it's at a point were it is
> functional and useful.
>
> To add mkdir/rmdir in debugfs, as debugfs does not support these operations,

Is there some reason not to extend debugfs to support mkdir/rmdir?

> I had to have the instances' inode use its own inode_operations and add a
> mkdir and rmdir method. As the instances directory can not be renamed
> or removed, or modified in any other way, it has the inode mutex released
> in order to call back to create or remove the debugfs directories.
> It has its own mutex to protect against multiple instances of this,
> and I've run many stress tests to make sure it can't crash. I haven't
> found were it can. The alternative is to have a "new" and "free" file
> to create and remove directories and it will basically do the exact
> same thing that the mkdir/rmdir does now, with the exact same protection.
> I do eventually want to make a tracefs, but that requires a lot of
> design planning and wont be in the near future (too many other things
> to do).
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