Re: ftrace not working?

[Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>]

On Wednesday 25 March 2009 07:51:34 Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > Steve, Can you merge this.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Nikanth
> > >
> > > In tracer_alloc_buffers(), do not free tracing_cpumask and
> > > tracing_buffer_mask on success.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > > index 17bb88d..98f609d 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > > @@ -3887,6 +3887,7 @@ __init static int tracer_alloc_buffers(void)
> > >
> > >  	register_die_notifier(&trace_die_notifier);
> > >  	ret = 0;
> > > +	goto out;
> >
> > Ah I see.
> > I've sent a fix for that already, it's on latest -tip
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commit;
> >h=2fc1dfbe17e7705c55b7a99da995fa565e26f151
>
> Nikanth,
>
> Could you varify that tip is not an issue for you.
>
>   http://people.redhat.com/~mingo/tip.git/readme.txt
>

Oh. That should fix it. It would be nice to have it in stable 2.6.29.1.

Thanks
Nikanth