eaba52d63b
- Fix setting affinity of hwlat threads in containers
Using sched_set_affinity() has unwanted side effects when being
called within a container. Use set_cpus_allowed_ptr() instead.
- Fix per cpu thread management of the hwlat tracer
* Do not start per_cpu threads if one is already running for the CPU.
* When starting per_cpu threads, do not clear the kthread variable
as it may already be set to running per cpu threads
- Fix return value for test_gen_kprobe_cmd()
On error the return value was overwritten by being set to
the result of the call from kprobe_event_delete(), which would
likely succeed, and thus have the function return success.
- Fix splice() reads from the trace file that was broken by
36e2c7421f02 ("fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops")
- Remove obsolete and confusing comment in ring_buffer.c
The original design of the ring buffer used struct page flags
for tricks to optimize, which was shortly removed due to them
being tricks. But a comment for those tricks remained.
- Set local functions and variables to static
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Merge tag 'trace-v6.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix setting affinity of hwlat threads in containers
Using sched_set_affinity() has unwanted side effects when being
called within a container. Use set_cpus_allowed_ptr() instead
- Fix per cpu thread management of the hwlat tracer:
- Do not start per_cpu threads if one is already running for the CPU
- When starting per_cpu threads, do not clear the kthread variable
as it may already be set to running per cpu threads
- Fix return value for test_gen_kprobe_cmd()
On error the return value was overwritten by being set to the result
of the call from kprobe_event_delete(), which would likely succeed,
and thus have the function return success
- Fix splice() reads from the trace file that was broken by commit
36e2c7421f02 ("fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit
ops")
- Remove obsolete and confusing comment in ring_buffer.c
The original design of the ring buffer used struct page flags for
tricks to optimize, which was shortly removed due to them being
tricks. But a comment for those tricks remained
- Set local functions and variables to static
* tag 'trace-v6.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing/hwlat: Replace sched_setaffinity with set_cpus_allowed_ptr
ring-buffer: remove obsolete comment for free_buffer_page()
tracing: Make splice_read available again
ftrace: Set direct_ops storage-class-specifier to static
trace/hwlat: Do not start per-cpu thread if it is already running
trace/hwlat: Do not wipe the contents of per-cpu thread data
tracing/osnoise: set several trace_osnoise.c variables storage-class-specifier to static
tracing: Fix wrong return in kprobe_event_gen_test.c
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