Re: [PATCH 01/14] sysctl: provide callback for write into ctl_tableentry

[Steven Rostedt]

On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 16:14 +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:

> A fix for that could be having the sysctl modifying a different var,
> and having ftrace_enabled from that under a lock, but I'm not sure if
> it's worth the work for the cleanup.

That was my original plan, but it seemed too much of a hassle than it
was worth, as I needed to make sure the mirrored variable was in sync
with ftrace_enabled, otherwise it could be confusing when ftrace was not
working but sysctl showed ftrace set to 1.

-- Steve


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