Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Oct 2020 23:54:44 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Updates for 5.10 |
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On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:53:23 +0900 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> 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?
Thanks!
-- Steve
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