Re: [PATCH v10 12/12] tracing: define trace_dump_stack() if!CONFIG_STACKTRACE

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Oct 11 2013 - 16:05:09 EST


On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 08:32 -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote:

> Yeah, it's not easy to turn off CONFIG_STACKTRACE - I basically had to
> tweak a couple Kconfigs to do it, so I could test my stacktrace trigger
> CONFIG_STACKTRACE ifdefs.

If there's no way to do make it fail currently, then it's not really a
problem.

>
> Still, it's code that explicitly depends on CONFIG_STACKTRACE, so I
> think it makes sense to ifdef it.
>

If we do decided to do this, then the change belongs in
include/kernel.h:

+#ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
extern void trace_dump_stack(int skip);
+#else
+static inline void trace_dump_stack(int skip) { }
+#endif

But again, since CONFIG_TRACING can't be configured without
CONFIG_STACKTRACE, I don't believe this change needs to be added.

You can keep it a separate patch locally to your tree for debugging, but
I doesn't need to be upstream.

-- Steve


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