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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2011-04-25 14:32:42 -0400
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2011-04-29 22:53:04 -0400
commitd2c8c3eafbf715306ec891e7ca52d3d999acbe31 (patch)
tree1dd5b7ae74f1dd951b542df3eb455af445a349c1 /kernel/trace
parent45a4a2372b364107cabea79f255b333236626416 (diff)
downloadlinux-d2c8c3eafbf715306ec891e7ca52d3d999acbe31.tar.gz
ftrace: Remove FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED flag
Since we disable all function tracer processing if we detect
that a modification of a instruction had failed, we do not need
to track that the record has failed. No more ftrace processing
is allowed, and the FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED flag is pointless.

The FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED flag was used to denote records that were
successfully converted from mcount calls into nops. But if a single
record fails, all of ftrace is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/ftrace.c12
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index eb19fae2c54a..9abaaf46f212 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -1087,12 +1087,8 @@ static void ftrace_replace_code(int enable)
 		return;
 
 	do_for_each_ftrace_rec(pg, rec) {
-		/*
-		 * Skip over free records, records that have
-		 * failed and not converted.
-		 */
-		if (rec->flags & FTRACE_FL_FREE ||
-		    !(rec->flags & FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED))
+		/* Skip over free records */
+		if (rec->flags & FTRACE_FL_FREE)
 			continue;
 
 		failed = __ftrace_replace_code(rec, enable);
@@ -1280,10 +1276,10 @@ static int ftrace_update_code(struct module *mod)
 		 */
 		if (!ftrace_code_disable(mod, p)) {
 			ftrace_free_rec(p);
-			continue;
+			/* Game over */
+			break;
 		}
 
-		p->flags |= FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED;
 		ftrace_update_cnt++;
 
 		/*