Re: [PATCH 05/11] ftrace: only have ftrace_kill atomic

Steven Rostedt
2008-10-22T19:19:22Z

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:43:18 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> > Only have a way to completely disable ftrace in atomic sections.
> >
>
> I have NFI what that means.
>
> More importantly there is no explanation for *why* this change is being
> made.

Sorry, I'll explain it better in the next release. This was just something
that Ingo wanted cleaned up. He prefers the name "ftrace_turn_off". I
really don't care what the name is, but the "atomic" part was something
that had to go.

What's your preference fo a name of a function that should completely
disable ftrace on anomaly detection? Unfortunately, ftrace_stop,
ftrace_disable, and ftrace_shutdown are already in use.

-- Steve