[PATCH v2] tracing: Clean up use of trace_create_maxlat_file()

From: Steven Rostedt

Date: Fri Feb 06 2026 - 23:04:29 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>
---
Changes since v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260206121242.6cb1934d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

- Fix stub function missing from !CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE

kernel/trace/trace.c | 13 +++++--------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 6815df23e5a3..b59c237f463c 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1969,11 +1969,8 @@ 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

/*
@@ -2109,7 +2106,9 @@ update_max_tr_single(struct trace_array *tr, struct task_struct *tsk, int cpu)
__update_max_tr(tr, tsk, cpu);
arch_spin_unlock(&tr->max_lock);
}
-
+#else
+static inline void trace_create_maxlat_file(struct trace_array *tr,
+ struct dentry *d_tracer) { }
#endif /* CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE */

struct pipe_wait {
@@ -10684,9 +10683,7 @@ 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");
--
2.51.0