Re: [PATCH] tracing: Skip software disabled event at __synth_event_trace_end()

[Masami Hiramatsu]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:54:19 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When the synthetic event is software disabled,
> __synth_event_trace_start() does not allocate an event buffer.
> In this case __synth_event_trace_end() also should not commit
> the buffer.
> 
> Check the trace_state->disabled at __synth_event_trace_end()
> and if it is disabled, skip it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> index 483b3fd1094f..781e4b55e117 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> @@ -1847,6 +1847,9 @@ __synth_event_trace_start(struct trace_event_file *file,
>  static inline void
>  __synth_event_trace_end(struct synth_event_trace_state *trace_state)
>  {
> +	if (trace_state->disabled)
> +		return;
> +

Aah, I assumed that trace_state should be initialized with 0, but
in really, it could be just allocated on the stack.
We has to set trace_state->disabled = false in __synth_event_trace_start().

Thank you,

>  	trace_event_buffer_commit(&trace_state->fbuffer);
>  
>  	ring_buffer_nest_end(trace_state->buffer);
> 


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>