Re: [PATCH] tracing: Skip software disabled event at __synth_event_trace_end()

From: Tom Zanussi
Date: Thu Feb 20 2020 - 14:51:51 EST


Hi Steve,

On Thu, 2020-02-20 at 14:34 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:33:40 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > static inline void
> > > __synth_event_trace_end(struct synth_event_trace_state
> > > *trace_state)
> > > {
> > > + if (trace_state->disabled)
> > > + return;
> > > +
> >
> > Aah, I assumed that trace_state should be initialized with 0, but
> > in really, it could be just allocated on the stack.
> > We has to set trace_state->disabled = false in
> > __synth_event_trace_start().
>
> Is this patch good enough to take, or is there another one coming?
>

I think this patch is good to take. The fix for setting trace_state-
>disabled to false would be covered by this later patch:

[PATCH 2/2] tracing: Clear trace_state when starting trace

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Tom

> -- Steve