On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 07:58 +0000, tip-bot for Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > +/* > + * We can't use a size but a type in alloc_percpu() > + * So let's create a dummy type that matches the desired size > + */ > +typedef struct {char buf[FTRACE_MAX_PROFILE_SIZE];} profile_buf_t; > + > static int ftrace_profile_enable_event(struct ftrace_event_call *event) > { > + char *buf; > + int ret; > + > if (atomic_inc_return(&event->profile_count)) > return 0; > > - return event->profile_enable(); > + buf = (char *)alloc_percpu(profile_buf_t); > + if (!buf) > + return -ENOMEM; Ingo, Did you pull in the version that allocates a buffer for each event? I thought Frederic made just a global per cpu buffer that all events can use. The buffer is just a temporary storage that will be too big to put on the stack. -- Steve > + > + rcu_assign_pointer(event->profile_buf, buf); > + > + buf = (char *)alloc_percpu(profile_buf_t); > + if (!buf) { > + ret = -ENOMEM; > + goto fail_nmi; > + } > + > + rcu_assign_pointer(event->profile_buf_nmi, buf); > + > + ret = event->profile_enable(); > + if (!ret) > + return 0; > + > + kfree(event->profile_buf_nmi); > +fail_nmi: > + kfree(event->profile_buf); > + > + return ret; > } > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html