Re: [PATCH] ftrace: allow dumping traces without tracking trace started cpus

[Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>]

On 09/08/2015 10:13 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 10:29:43 -0400
> Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>> So it is safe to call the function cpumask_test_cpu without doing
>>> checking.
>>
>> Can you point me to exactly where trace_init_global_iter() initializes
>> iter->started?
> 
> Wouldn't the better solution be to initialize it in that function,
> instead of checking if it is NULL? I think that's the true fix.
> "started" should not be ignored.

Yes, I agree that it would be nicer if we init it rather than ignore it,
but I wanted to avoid trying to do an extra allocation on this path since
it usually happens when the system oopsed, so allocations might be reliable
and we want to get the ftrace buffer out as reliably as we can.


Thanks,
Sasha