Messages in this thread | | | From | dann frazier <> | Date | Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:17:20 -0600 | Subject | Re: [for-next][PATCH 09/18] tracing: Move pipe reference to trace array instead of current_tracer |
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On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 3:16 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 13:33:45 -0600 > dann frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com> wrote: > > > > This is marked as "Fixes" but is more of a clean up than a true fix. > > > Backport if you want, but its not critical. > > > > Thanks Steven! In case it helps backport consideration, I wanted to > > note that this addresses an issue we've seen with users trying to > > change current_tracer when they happen to have rasdaemon > > installed. rasdaemon uses the trace_pipe interface at runtime, which > > therefore blocks changing the current tracer. But of course, unless > > you know about rasdaemon internals, it isn't exactly an obvious > > failure mode. > > Ah, then this should probably be backported. > > When I push to Linus (during the next merge window) and it gets into > Linus's tree. Feel free to send stable@vger.kernel.org the sha1 of this > commit, and ask for it to be backported for the above stated reason.
Will do.
-dann
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