Re: [PATCH] ftrace: allow dumping traces without tracking trace started cpus

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 10:17:15 -0400
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> Yes, I agree that it would be nicer if we init it rather than ignore it,
> but I wanted to avoid trying to do an extra allocation on this path since
> it usually happens when the system oopsed, so allocations might be reliable
> and we want to get the ftrace buffer out as reliably as we can.

Fair enough. I'll keep the patch as is then.

-- Steve
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