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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tracing: bpf: Hide bpf trace events when they are not used
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 06:40:02PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
>
> All the trace events defined in include/trace/events/bpf.h are only
> used when CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL is defined. But this file gets included by
> include/linux/bpf_trace.h which is included by the networking code with
> CREATE_TRACE_POINTS defined.
>
> If a trace event is created but not used it still has data structures
> and functions created for its use, even though nothing is using them.
> To not waste space, do not define the BPF trace events in bpf.h unless
> CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL is defined.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Looks fine.
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

I'm assuming you want to take it through tracing tree along
with all other cleanups?

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