Re: [PATCH 03/15] tracing: Add a free on close control mechanism for buffer_size_kb

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> +	switch (cmd) {
> +	case TRACE_RINGBUF_FREE_ON_CLOSE: {
> +		info->free_buffer_on_close = !!arg;
> +		ret = 0;
> +		break;
> +	}
>  	}

that doesn't look very tidy.

> @@ -3635,9 +3700,12 @@ static const struct file_operations tracing_pipe_fops = {
>  };
>  
>  static const struct file_operations tracing_entries_fops = {
> -	.open		= tracing_open_generic,
> +	.open		= tracing_entries_open,
>  	.read		= tracing_entries_read,
>  	.write		= tracing_entries_write,
> +	.unlocked_ioctl	= tracing_entries_ioctl,
> +	.compat_ioctl	= tracing_entries_ioctl,

i don't like it at all that you are adding to the ftrace ABI here. 
The *only* premise of the whole /debug/tracing/ muck was to allow it 
to be human-parseable and scripted - an ioctl is clearly outside that 
scope. Instead of increasing the mess in /debug/tracing/ we want 
clean tracing done via the perf ABI ...

Thanks,

	Ingo