Re: [PATCH] trace event skb remove duplicate null-pointer check

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Thu Jan 06 2011 - 13:47:59 EST


On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 01:38:02PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * Frederic Weisbecker (fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:15:44AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 12:53:19 -0500
> > >
> > > > The check for NULL skb in the kfree_skb trace event is a duplicate from the
> > > > check already done in its only caller, kfree_skb(). Remove this duplicate check.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > May be you want to take that on the net tree? Looks like more appropriate.
> > Of course this can go through the tracing tree as well.
>
> It might be easier to manage the TRACE_EVENT() reshaping (removal of semicolumn,
> tp_assign, etc) I am preparing if, at this stage, we merge most of the
> include/trace/event patches through a single tree (the tracing tree). Otherwise
> we might end up with more commit cross-dependencies between the trees, and
> increase the risk of conflicts.

Alright, let's take that on the tracing tree.

I'll apply them if Steve doesn't beat me at it.

Thanks.
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