Re: [PATCH] trace: ftrace_dump_on_oops[] is not exported, make it static

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue,  6 Jan 2026 23:10:54 +0000
Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The ftrace_dump_on_oops string is not used outside of trace.c so
> make it static to avoid the export warning from sparse:
> 
> kernel/trace/trace.c:141:6: warning: symbol 'ftrace_dump_on_oops' was not declared. Should it be static?
> 

This could probably have:

Fixes: dd293df6395a2 ("tracing: Move trace sysctls into trace.c")

as that was the commit to move the usage of that variable back into the
defining file.

-- Steve


> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index 6f2148df14d9..5c196ea93768 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ cpumask_var_t __read_mostly	tracing_buffer_mask;
>   * by commas.
>   */
>  /* Set to string format zero to disable by default */
> -char ftrace_dump_on_oops[MAX_TRACER_SIZE] = "0";
> +static char ftrace_dump_on_oops[MAX_TRACER_SIZE] = "0";
>  
>  /* When set, tracing will stop when a WARN*() is hit */
>  static int __disable_trace_on_warning;