From d840f718d28715a9833c1a8f46c2493ff3fd219b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 18:38:47 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Init current_trace to nop_trace and remove NULL checks On early boot up, when the ftrace ring buffer is initialized, the static variable current_trace is initialized to &nop_trace. Before this initialization, current_trace is NULL and will never become NULL again. It is always reassigned to a ftrace tracer. Several places check if current_trace is NULL before it uses it, and this check is frivolous, because at the point in time when the checks are made the only way current_trace could be NULL is if ftrace failed its allocations at boot up, and the paths to these locations would probably not be possible. By initializing current_trace to &nop_trace where it is declared, current_trace will never be NULL, and we can remove all these checks of current_trace being NULL which never needed to be checked in the first place. Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: Hiraku Toyooka Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 30 ++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 70dce64b9ec..5d520b7bb4c 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static unsigned long trace_buf_size = TRACE_BUF_SIZE_DEFAULT; static struct tracer *trace_types __read_mostly; /* current_trace points to the tracer that is currently active */ -static struct tracer *current_trace __read_mostly; +static struct tracer *current_trace __read_mostly = &nop_trace; /* * trace_types_lock is used to protect the trace_types list. @@ -2100,8 +2100,7 @@ print_trace_header(struct seq_file *m, struct trace_iterator *iter) unsigned long total; const char *name = "preemption"; - if (type) - name = type->name; + name = type->name; get_total_entries(tr, &total, &entries); @@ -2477,13 +2476,12 @@ __tracing_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, bool snapshot) if (!iter->trace) goto fail; - if (current_trace) - *iter->trace = *current_trace; + *iter->trace = *current_trace; if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&iter->started, GFP_KERNEL)) goto fail; - if ((current_trace && current_trace->print_max) || snapshot) + if (current_trace->print_max || snapshot) iter->tr = &max_tr; else iter->tr = &global_trace; @@ -3037,10 +3035,7 @@ tracing_set_trace_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf, int r; mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock); - if (current_trace) - r = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", current_trace->name); - else - r = sprintf(buf, "\n"); + r = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", current_trace->name); mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock); return simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, cnt, ppos, buf, r); @@ -3231,10 +3226,10 @@ static int tracing_set_tracer(const char *buf) goto out; trace_branch_disable(); - if (current_trace && current_trace->reset) + if (current_trace->reset) current_trace->reset(tr); - had_max_tr = current_trace && current_trace->allocated_snapshot; + had_max_tr = current_trace->allocated_snapshot; current_trace = &nop_trace; if (had_max_tr && !t->use_max_tr) { @@ -3373,8 +3368,7 @@ static int tracing_open_pipe(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) ret = -ENOMEM; goto fail; } - if (current_trace) - *iter->trace = *current_trace; + *iter->trace = *current_trace; if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&iter->started, GFP_KERNEL)) { ret = -ENOMEM; @@ -3525,7 +3519,7 @@ tracing_read_pipe(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf, /* copy the tracer to avoid using a global lock all around */ mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock); - if (unlikely(current_trace && iter->trace->name != current_trace->name)) + if (unlikely(iter->trace->name != current_trace->name)) *iter->trace = *current_trace; mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock); @@ -3691,7 +3685,7 @@ static ssize_t tracing_splice_read_pipe(struct file *filp, /* copy the tracer to avoid using a global lock all around */ mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock); - if (unlikely(current_trace && iter->trace->name != current_trace->name)) + if (unlikely(iter->trace->name != current_trace->name)) *iter->trace = *current_trace; mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock); @@ -4115,7 +4109,7 @@ tracing_snapshot_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt, mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock); - if (current_trace && current_trace->use_max_tr) { + if (current_trace->use_max_tr) { ret = -EBUSY; goto out; } @@ -5299,7 +5293,7 @@ __init static int tracer_alloc_buffers(void) init_irq_work(&trace_work_wakeup, trace_wake_up); register_tracer(&nop_trace); - current_trace = &nop_trace; + /* All seems OK, enable tracing */ tracing_disabled = 0; -- 2.41.0