Re: [PATCH] selftests/ftrace: remove _do_fork() leftovers

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Oct 23 2020 - 11:49:53 EST


On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 17:12:44 +0200
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Perhaps we should have:
> >
> > # older kernels have do_fork, but newer kernels have kernel_clone
> > echo kernel_clone >> set_ftrace_filter || echo *do_fork >> set_ftrace_filter
>
> Would you suggest to do the same with all occurences in
> eea11285dab3 ("tracing: switch to kernel_clone()")?
> Otherwise it does not really make sense to just fix couple
> of tests out of dozens.

Yes. I haven't pulled in the updated tests, so I haven't hit the errors yet
(nor have I merged my work with the switch to the new name yet). So those
will most definitely break my tests.

But because it's a more generic issue, we should have a way to find what to
use. Perhaps add to the test.d/functions, something like:

FUNCTION_FORK=`(if grep '\bkernel_clone\b' /proc/kallsyms > /dev/null; then
echo kernel_clone; else echo '_do_fork'; fi)`

and use $FUNCTION_FORK everywhere that references it.

-- Steve