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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/lockdep: turn lock->name into an array
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> We could zap all pending trace entries on module unload (it is a 
> rare operation)

...Unless you're trying to trace something across a module unload.  I 
don't know if its at all practical, but it would be nice to just zap the 
pointers within the buffer, rather than the whole buffer.

    J