tracing: handle unregistering the current tracer
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:52:59 +0000 (18:52 -0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:56:53 +0000 (10:56 +0100)
Impact: simplification

Instead of requiring that plugins have the sequence:

  my_tracer_stop(my_trace_array);
  unregister_tracer(my_tracer);

it should be possible just do a:

  unregister_tracer(my_tracer);

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/trace/trace.c

index 03fbd4c..93040f1 100644 (file)
@@ -559,6 +559,15 @@ void unregister_tracer(struct tracer *type)
 
  found:
        *t = (*t)->next;
+
+       if (type == current_trace && tracer_enabled) {
+               tracer_enabled = 0;
+               tracing_stop();
+               if (current_trace->stop)
+                       current_trace->stop(&global_trace);
+               current_trace = &nop_trace;
+       }
+
        if (strlen(type->name) != max_tracer_type_len)
                goto out;