[PATCH] tracing: Clean up use of trace_create_maxlat_file()

From: Steven Rostedt

Date: Fri Feb 06 2026 - 12:12:18 EST


From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

In trace.c, the function trace_create_maxlat_file() is defined behind the
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE block. The #else part defines it as:

#define trace_create_maxlat_file(tr, d_tracer) \
trace_create_file("tracing_max_latency", TRACE_MODE_WRITE, \
d_tracer, tr, &tracing_max_lat_fops)

But the one place that it it used has:

#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
trace_create_maxlat_file(tr, d_tracer);
#endif

Which is pointless.

Define trace_create_maxlat_file() when CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE is not
defined as:

static inline void trace_create_maxlat_file(struct trace_array *tr,
struct dentry *d_tracer) { }

And remove the #ifdef's from the code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index dfa30711c6e2..5bc22d966834 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1547,10 +1547,8 @@ void latency_fsnotify(struct trace_array *tr)

#else /* !LATENCY_FS_NOTIFY */

-#define trace_create_maxlat_file(tr, d_tracer) \
- trace_create_file("tracing_max_latency", TRACE_MODE_WRITE, \
- d_tracer, tr, &tracing_max_lat_fops)
-
+static inline void trace_create_maxlat_file(struct trace_array *tr,
+ struct dentry *d_tracer) { }
#endif

/*
@@ -9909,9 +9907,7 @@ init_tracer_tracefs(struct trace_array *tr, struct dentry *d_tracer)

create_trace_options_dir(tr);

-#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
trace_create_maxlat_file(tr, d_tracer);
-#endif

if (ftrace_create_function_files(tr, d_tracer))
MEM_FAIL(1, "Could not allocate function filter files");
--
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