Re: [Patch -tip 1/3] Tracing/ftrace: Relay unhandled entry output

From: Frédéric Weisbecker
Date: Thu Sep 25 2008 - 11:56:57 EST


2008/9/25 Pekka Paalanen <pq@xxxxxx>:
> My understanding is that the pipe will be broken only, if the trace
> framework believes tracing is disabled. Recall the discussion about
> tracer_enabled = 0. Which is a bug, and I hoped Steven would have
> commented on how to fix that properly.
>
> Or was it fixed already, and this is a different issue?
> I didn't notice.

Actually there was two bugs which broke the pipe:
_ As you say the old one when none tracer put tracer_enabled = 0
_ And the new one I described here.

I think the first is fixed since none tracer has been replaced by "nop
tracer" (a recently implemented) which doesn't touch
tracer_enabled at all.
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