Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Remove leftoverFTRACE_ENABLE/DISABLE_MCOUNT enums

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 12:10 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:01:42 EDT, Steven Rostedt said:
> > From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The enums for FTRACE_ENABLE_MCOUNT and FTRACE_DISABLE_MCOUNT were
> > used as commands to ftrace_run_update_code(). But these commands
> > were used by the old nasty ftrace daemon that has long been slain.
> 
> > -	FTRACE_START_FUNC_RET		= (1 << 5),
> > -	FTRACE_STOP_FUNC_RET		= (1 << 6),
> > +	FTRACE_START_FUNC_RET		= (1 << 3),
> > +	FTRACE_STOP_FUNC_RET		= (1 << 4),
> 
> This renumber isn't visible to user space, correct? (Asking because the enable/
> disable apparently *were* visible to the since-slain userspace daemon)

Nope, it's not visible to userspace, and the slain-daemon was a kernel
thread, not userspace.

-- Steve


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