[PATCH] trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code

[Steven Rostedt]

The following patch is in:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git

    branch: tip/devel


Steven Rostedt (1):
      trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code

----
 kernel/trace/trace_stack.c |   11 ++++-------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
---------------------------
commit 965ef53e1eb54de09aeec0af83d4635e9e9c9f73
Author: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed Dec 17 09:43:00 2008 -0500

    trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
    
    Impact: clean up
    
    Andrew Morton suggested to use the stack_tracer_enabled variable
    to decide whether or not to start stack tracing on bootup.
    This lets us remove the start_stack_trace variable.
    
    Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
index 4842c96..d0871bc 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ stack_trace_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 
 	mutex_lock(&stack_sysctl_mutex);
 
-	ret  = proc_dointvec(table, write, file, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+	ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, file, buffer, lenp, ppos);
 
 	if (ret || !write ||
 	    (last_stack_tracer_enabled == stack_tracer_enabled))
@@ -326,11 +326,10 @@ stack_trace_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int start_stack_trace __initdata;
-
 static __init int enable_stacktrace(char *str)
 {
-	start_stack_trace = 1;
+	stack_tracer_enabled = 1;
+	last_stack_tracer_enabled = 1;
 	return 1;
 }
 __setup("stacktrace", enable_stacktrace);
@@ -352,10 +351,8 @@ static __init int stack_trace_init(void)
 	if (!entry)
 		pr_warning("Could not create debugfs 'stack_trace' entry\n");
 
-	if (start_stack_trace) {
+	if (stack_tracer_enabled)
 		register_ftrace_function(&trace_ops);
-		stack_tracer_enabled = 1;
-	}
 
 	return 0;
 }


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