On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:38:26 +0200 Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> wrote:
> I do not understand the ftrace machinery Not many do :-/ > and I have to admit I was under > impression that nothing really gets defined if the code using them > doesn't exist but if this is not the case then this patch makes sense to > me Sometimes events are created by kernel proper that are used by modules, or created by modules to be used by other modules (kvm does this with kvm_intel and kvm_amd). Unfortunately, for these cases they need to stay. Or later, I plan on moving them to where they are used, because they have the same issue (wasting memory). > > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rost...@goodmis.org> > > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com> Thanks! -- Steve
