Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing: Do not try to recreated toplevel set_ftrace_* files

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 07:42:57PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> 
> With the restructing of the function tracer working with instances, the
> "top level" buffer is a bit special, as the function tracing is mapped
> to the same set of filters. This is done by using a "global_ops" descriptor
> and having the "set_ftrace_filter" and "set_ftrace_notrace" map to it.
> 
> When an instance is created, it creates the same files but its for the
> local instance and not the global_ops.
> 
> The issues is that the local instance creation shares some code with
> the global instance one and we end up trying to create th top level
> "set_ftrace_*" files twice, and on boot up, we get an error like this:
> 
>  Could not create debugfs 'set_ftrace_filter' entry
>  Could not create debugfs 'set_ftrace_notrace' entry
> 
> The reason they failed to be created was because they were created
> twice, and the second time gives this error as you can not create the
> same file twice.
> 
> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

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