remarkable-linux/kernel
Steven Rostedt 02404baf1b tracing: Remove deprecated tracing_enabled file
The tracing_enabled file was used as a quick way to stop
tracers, and try to bring down overhead for things like
the latency tracers (irqsoff, wakeup, etc). But it didn't
work that well.

The tracing_on file was created as a really fast way to
stop recording into the ftrace ring buffer and can interact
with the kernel. That is a tracing_off() call in the kernel
can disable recording of events, and then from userspace one
could echo 1 into the tracing_on file to continue it. The
tracing_enabled function did too much to allow for this.

The tracing_on has taken over as a way to start and stop tracing
and the tracing_enabled file should not be used. But because of
its existance, it still confuses people. Over a year ago the
following commit was added:

 commit 6752ab4a9c
 Author: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
 Date:   Tue Feb 8 13:54:06 2011 -0500

    tracing: Deprecate tracing_enabled for tracing_on

This commit added a WARN_ON() if the tracing_enabled file's variable
was changed. After this was added, only LatencyTop complained, and
they soon fixed their tool as there was no reason that LatencyTop
should touch this file as it was using the perf ring buffers which
this file does not interact with. But since that time no one else
has complained about this WARN_ON(). Thus it is safe to assume that
this file is no longer needed. Time to get rid of it.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-02 10:21:51 -04:00
..
debug KGDB/KDB fixes and cleanups 2012-10-13 11:16:58 +09:00
events Merge branch 'uprobes/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc into perf/urgent 2012-10-21 18:18:17 +02:00
gcov
irq irqdomain: augment add_simple() to allocate descs 2012-10-10 08:57:26 +02:00
power Merge branch 'pm-qos' 2012-09-17 20:25:51 +02:00
sched Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-10-12 22:13:05 +09:00
time Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-10-12 22:17:48 +09:00
trace tracing: Remove deprecated tracing_enabled file 2012-11-02 10:21:51 -04:00
.gitignore
acct.c vfs: make path_openat take a struct filename pointer 2012-10-12 20:15:09 -04:00
async.c [SCSI] async: make async_synchronize_full() flush all work regardless of domain 2012-07-20 09:07:37 +01:00
audit.c fs: handle failed audit_log_start properly 2012-10-09 23:33:37 -04:00
audit.h audit: optimize audit_compare_dname_path 2012-10-12 00:32:02 -04:00
audit_tree.c audit: clean up refcounting in audit-tree 2012-08-15 12:55:22 +02:00
audit_watch.c audit: optimize audit_compare_dname_path 2012-10-12 00:32:02 -04:00
auditfilter.c audit: optimize audit_compare_dname_path 2012-10-12 00:32:02 -04:00
auditsc.c audit: make audit_inode take struct filename 2012-10-12 20:15:09 -04:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup.c Merge branch 'for-3.7-hierarchy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2012-10-02 10:52:28 -07:00
cgroup_freezer.c cgroup: mark subsystems with broken hierarchy support and whine if cgroups are nested for them 2012-09-14 12:01:16 -07:00
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c CPU hotplug, debug: detect imbalance between get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus() 2012-10-09 16:22:15 +09:00
cpu_pm.c kernel/cpu_pm.c: fix various typos 2012-05-31 17:49:27 -07:00
cpuset.c cpusets: Remove/update outdated comments 2012-07-24 13:53:28 +02:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c userns: Make credential debugging user namespace safe. 2012-08-23 22:54:18 -07:00
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-10-10 12:02:25 +09:00
freezer.c
futex.c futex: Forbid uaddr == uaddr2 in futex_wait_requeue_pi() 2012-07-24 16:02:57 +02:00
futex_compat.c
groups.c
hrtimer.c hrtimer: Update hrtimer base offsets each hrtimer_interrupt 2012-07-11 23:34:39 +02:00
hung_task.c
irq_work.c
itimer.c
jump_label.c jump_label: Export jump_label_rate_limit() 2012-08-06 19:00:35 +03:00
kallsyms.c vsprintf: fix %ps on non symbols when using kallsyms 2012-05-29 16:22:32 -07:00
kcmp.c syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall 2012-05-31 17:49:32 -07:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks locking: Adjust spin lock inlining Kconfig options 2012-09-13 17:56:13 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kdump: remove unneeded include 2012-10-06 03:05:19 +09:00
kfifo.c
kmod.c infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics 2012-10-12 13:35:07 -04:00
kprobes.c kprobes/x86: Fix to support jprobes on ftrace-based kprobe 2012-09-13 22:52:11 -04:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-10-13 10:05:52 +09:00
latencytop.c
lglock.c brlocks/lglocks: turn into functions 2012-05-29 23:28:41 -04:00
lockdep.c lockdep: Check if nested lock is actually held 2012-09-13 17:00:44 +02:00
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep_states.h
Makefile Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2012-10-14 13:39:34 -07:00
modsign_pubkey.c MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel 2012-10-10 20:01:22 +10:30
module-internal.h MODSIGN: Move the magic string to the end of a module and eliminate the search 2012-10-19 17:30:40 -07:00
module.c MODSIGN: Move the magic string to the end of a module and eliminate the search 2012-10-19 17:30:40 -07:00
module_signing.c module_signing: fix printk format warning 2012-10-22 08:56:34 +03:00
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c
panic.c panic: fix a possible deadlock in panic() 2012-07-30 17:25:13 -07:00
params.c
pid.c net ip6 flowlabel: Make owner a union of struct pid * and kuid_t 2012-08-14 21:49:25 -07:00
pid_namespace.c pidns: remove recursion from free_pid_ns() 2012-10-19 14:07:47 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c
posix-timers.c
printk.c printk: Fix scheduling-while-atomic problem in console_cpu_notify() 2012-10-16 18:17:44 -07:00
profile.c
ptrace.c ptrace: mark __ptrace_may_access() static 2012-08-03 14:47:17 +10:00
range.c
rcu.h
rcupdate.c rcu: Add PROVE_RCU_DELAY to provoke difficult races 2012-09-23 07:42:49 -07:00
rcutiny.c rcu: Move TINY_RCU quiescent state out of extended quiescent state 2012-09-23 07:42:52 -07:00
rcutiny_plugin.h rcu: Move TINY_PREEMPT_RCU away from raw_local_irq_save() 2012-09-23 07:42:51 -07:00
rcutorture.c rcu: Prevent initialization race in rcutorture kthreads 2012-09-23 07:42:23 -07:00
rcutree.c rcu: Grace-period initialization excludes only RCU notifier 2012-10-08 09:06:38 -07:00
rcutree.h rcu: Grace-period initialization excludes only RCU notifier 2012-10-08 09:06:38 -07:00
rcutree_plugin.h rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ handle adaptive ticks 2012-09-26 15:44:02 +02:00
rcutree_trace.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/smp/hotplug' into next.2012.09.25b 2012-09-25 10:01:45 -07:00
relay.c splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses 2012-06-13 21:16:42 +02:00
res_counter.c rescounters: add res_counter_uncharge_until() 2012-05-29 16:22:27 -07:00
resource.c kernel/resource.c: fix stack overflow in __reserve_region_with_split() 2012-10-06 03:05:31 +09:00
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rtmutex_common.h
rwsem.c
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c coredump: pass siginfo_t* to do_coredump() and below, not merely signr 2012-10-06 03:05:16 +09:00
smp.c smp: Remove ipi_call_lock[_irq]()/ipi_call_unlock[_irq]() 2012-06-05 17:27:14 +02:00
smpboot.c hotplug: Fix UP bug in smpboot hotplug code 2012-08-13 17:01:07 +02:00
smpboot.h smpboot: Provide infrastructure for percpu hotplug threads 2012-08-13 17:01:07 +02:00
softirq.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-10-01 10:43:39 -07:00
spinlock.c
srcu.c workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq 2012-08-20 14:51:24 -07:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys.c use clamp_t in UNAME26 fix 2012-10-19 18:51:17 -07:00
sys_ni.c syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall 2012-05-31 17:49:32 -07:00
sysctl.c Kconfig: clean up the "#if defined(arch)" list for exception-trace sysctl entry 2012-10-09 16:22:14 +09:00
sysctl_binary.c mm: prepare for removal of obsolete /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads 2012-07-31 18:42:40 -07:00
task_work.c task_work: task_work_add() should not succeed after exit_task_work() 2012-09-13 16:47:34 +02:00
taskstats.c taskstats: cgroupstats_user_cmd() may leak on error 2012-10-06 03:05:31 +09:00
test_kprobes.c
time.c time: Move update_vsyscall definitions to timekeeper_internal.h 2012-09-24 12:38:06 -04:00
timeconst.pl
timer.c timers: Fix endless looping between cascade() and internal_add_timer() 2012-10-09 21:27:14 +02:00
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c userns: Convert taskstats to handle the user and pid namespaces. 2012-09-18 01:01:32 -07:00
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c userns: Add kprojid_t and associated infrastructure in projid.h 2012-09-18 01:01:37 -07:00
user_namespace.c userns: Add kprojid_t and associated infrastructure in projid.h 2012-09-18 01:01:37 -07:00
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
wait.c
watchdog.c watchdog: Use hotplug thread infrastructure 2012-08-13 17:01:07 +02:00
workqueue.c Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
workqueue_sched.h