Re: [PATCH 1/8] ftrace: Replace uses of _ftrace_direct APIs with _ftrace_direct_multi

Florent Revest
2023-02-07T16:20:25Z

On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 4:35 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 16:21:49 +0100
> Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> > Actually, I'm not sure anymore if we should delete the !multi samples...
> >
> > I realized that they are also used as part of the ftrace selftests in:
> > - tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/direct/ftrace-direct.tc
> > - tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/direct/kprobe-direct.tc
> >
> > It does not really make sense to use the ftrace-direct-muti sample as
> > a drop-in replacement for the ftrace-direct sample there since they
> > don't really do the same thing so we would either need to change the
> > test a bit or the multi sample.
> > Also, we would still need to adapt the ftrace-direct-too sample since
> > it has no multi equivalent and is required there.
>
> Let's not delete the samples, and they do test slightly different use cases
> (although the code may be somewhat the same). I rather still keep that test
> coverage.
>
> -- Steve

Ack :) Thanks Steve!

I'll undo the work I've started to do on this and send a v2 shortly afterward.