Re: [PATCH] tracing: Register static events output early

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed May 18 2011 - 19:37:25 EST


On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 01:29 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
> index cf535cc..ad92d9c 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
> @@ -1278,4 +1278,4 @@ __init static int init_events(void)
>
> return 0;
> }
> -device_initcall(init_events);
> +early_initcall(init_events);

Hmm, careful here. The ring buffers are also allocated at early_init().

But you may be OK, as things like trace_printk() don't do anything if
"tracing_disabled" is set, and it's set on bootup and cleared after we
allocate the buffers.

-- Steve


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