Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Updates for 5.10

[Masami Hiramatsu]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 23:54:44 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:53:23 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > I'll have to think about how to untangle this. Is there some kind of
> > > annotation that makes it show that a path can only be called at boot up and
> > > not later?  
> > 
> > What happen if we use Peter's static_call() and update it after boot up? 
> 
> I think that's a bit over engineering ;-)
> 
> > Or, we might need to break apart the trace_array_create() and restruct
> > it as __init trace_array_early_create() and trace_array_create().
> 
> That will likely make the code a bit more complex and possibly add as much
> code as we save from the __init sections.
> 
> I think the best solution is what you proposed, and removing the __init,
> and possibly making that function inline as well.
> 
> Care to send an official patch?

Sure, I'll send it.

Thank you,

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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>