Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] kasan: switch kunit tests to console tracepoints

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 1 May 2023 15:02:37 -0700
Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > "ftrace" is really for just the function tracing, but CONFIG_FTRACE
> > > really should just be for the function tracing infrastructure, and
> > > perhaps not even include trace events :-/ But at the time it was
> > > created, it was for all the "tracers" (this was added before trace
> > > events).  
> >
> > It would be great to see this cleaned up. I found this aspect of how
> > tracing works rather confusing.
> >
> > So do you think it makes sense for the KASAN tests to "select TRACING"
> > for now if the code depends on the trace event infrastructure?  
> 
> Any thoughts? It looks like someone else got tripped up by this:
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D144057

Yeah, it really does need to get cleaned up, but unfortunately it's not
going to be a trivial change. We need to make sure it's done in a way that
an old .config still keeps the same things enabled with the new config
settings. That takes some trickery in the dependency.

I'll add this to my todo list, hopefully it doesn't fall into the abyss
portion of that list :-p

-- Steve