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| author | Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2022-04-01 14:39:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-04-02 10:32:14 -0700 |
| commit | 1cd927ad6f62f27d8908498dcbf61395c5dd5fe2 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a19daa140d5ffc8cc10ea75ab0e38c99cbca8e9 /kernel | |
| parent | 88e6c0207623874922712e162e25d9dafd39661e (diff) | |
| download | linux-1cd927ad6f62f27d8908498dcbf61395c5dd5fe2.tar.bz2 | |
tracing: mark user_events as BROKEN
After being merged, user_events become more visible to a wider audience
that have concerns with the current API.
It is too late to fix this for this release, but instead of a full
revert, just mark it as BROKEN (which prevents it from being selected in
make config). Then we can work finding a better API. If that fails,
then it will need to be completely reverted.
To not have the code silently bitrot, still allow building it with
COMPILE_TEST.
And to prevent the uapi header from being installed, then later changed,
and then have an old distro user space see the old version, move the
header file out of the uapi directory.
Surround the include with CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST to the current location,
but when the BROKEN tag is taken off, it will use the uapi directory,
and fail to compile. This is a good way to remind us to move the header
back.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220330155835.5e1f6669@gandalf.local.home
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220330201755.29319-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/Kconfig | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c | 5 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig index 9bb54c0b3b2d..2c43e327a619 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig @@ -767,6 +767,7 @@ config USER_EVENTS bool "User trace events" select TRACING select DYNAMIC_EVENTS + depends on BROKEN || COMPILE_TEST # API needs to be straighten out help User trace events are user-defined trace events that can be used like an existing kernel trace event. User trace diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c index 8b3d241a31c2..68d62bfac12f 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c @@ -18,7 +18,12 @@ #include <linux/tracefs.h> #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> +/* Reminder to move to uapi when everything works */ +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST +#include <linux/user_events.h> +#else #include <uapi/linux/user_events.h> +#endif #include "trace.h" #include "trace_dynevent.h" |