Re: Reference to non-existing DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Aug 06 2021 - 09:22:55 EST


On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 12:18:36 +0200
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Steven,

Hi Lukas, thanks for the report.

> Did you intend to depend on the existing "HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS" here?
>
> Or did you intend to add a new config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
> analogously to DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS as defined in
> ./kernel/trace/Kconfig (see below)?
>
> config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
> def_bool y
> depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
> depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
>
> I am happy to provide a patch, once I understand what was intended here.
>

Yeah, that looks to be the missing part. The
HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS is just showing support, but knowing it
is enabled would require DYNAMIC_FTRACE being set (which is user
enabled).

Feel free to send a patch, and mark it for stable.

-- Steve