Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] tracing: Kill tracing_open/release_generic_file

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 20:57 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Kill tracing_open_generic_file() and tracing_release_generic_file(),
> they are racy anyway.
> 
> Instead, change event_enable_read() and event_enable_write() to rely
> on event_mutex and file_inode(filp)->i_private != NULL check.
> 
> trace_array_get() goes away. NOTE! this is actually wrong until we
> change instance_delete() path to nullify ->i_private.

I think this needs to be done first. Want me to take a crack at it, and
we can interleave our patches if needed.

-- Steve


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