On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 03:16:10PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <[email protected]>
> 
> Enabling tracepoints at boot up can be very useful. The tracepoint
> can be initialized right after RCU has been. There's no need to
> wait for the early_initcall() to be called. That's too late for some
> things that can use tracepoints for debugging. Move the logic to
> enable tracepoints out of the initcalls and into init/main.c to
> right after rcu_init().
> 
> This also allows trace_printk() to be used early too.
> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412121539300.16494@nanos
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> 
> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

>From an RCU perspective:

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>

> ---
>  include/linux/ftrace.h        |  6 ++++++
>  init/main.c                   |  4 ++++
>  kernel/trace/trace.c          |  8 +++++++-
>  kernel/trace/trace.h          | 13 +++++++++++++
>  kernel/trace/trace_events.c   | 10 ++++++++--
>  kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c |  7 ++-----
>  6 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
> index ed501953f0b2..f4bc14b7d444 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
> @@ -39,6 +39,12 @@
>  # define FTRACE_FORCE_LIST_FUNC 0
>  #endif
> 
> +/* Main tracing buffer and events set up */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
> +void trace_init(void);
> +#else
> +static inline void trace_init(void) { }
> +#endif
> 
>  struct module;
>  struct ftrace_hash;
> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index 800a0daede7e..70687069f8e2 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -577,6 +577,10 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void)
>               local_irq_disable();
>       idr_init_cache();
>       rcu_init();
> +
> +     /* trace_printk() and trace points may be used after this */
> +     trace_init();
> +
>       context_tracking_init();
>       radix_tree_init();
>       /* init some links before init_ISA_irqs() */
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index 4ceb2546c7ef..ec3ca694665f 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -6876,6 +6876,13 @@ out:
>       return ret;
>  }
> 
> +void __init trace_init(void)
> +{
> +     tracer_alloc_buffers();
> +     init_ftrace_syscalls();
> +     trace_event_init();     
> +}
> +
>  __init static int clear_boot_tracer(void)
>  {
>       /*
> @@ -6895,6 +6902,5 @@ __init static int clear_boot_tracer(void)
>       return 0;
>  }
> 
> -early_initcall(tracer_alloc_buffers);
>  fs_initcall(tracer_init_debugfs);
>  late_initcall(clear_boot_tracer);
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> index 3255dfb054a0..c138c149d6ef 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> @@ -1301,4 +1301,17 @@ int perf_ftrace_event_register(struct 
> ftrace_event_call *call,
>  #define perf_ftrace_event_register NULL
>  #endif
> 
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
> +void init_ftrace_syscalls(void);
> +#else
> +static inline void init_ftrace_syscalls(void) { }
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING
> +void trace_event_init(void);
> +#else
> +static inline void __init trace_event_init(void) { }
> +#endif
> +
> +
>  #endif /* _LINUX_KERNEL_TRACE_H */
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> index f9d0cbe014b7..fd9deb0e03f0 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> @@ -2477,8 +2477,14 @@ static __init int event_trace_init(void)
>  #endif
>       return 0;
>  }
> -early_initcall(event_trace_memsetup);
> -core_initcall(event_trace_enable);
> +
> +void __init trace_event_init(void)
> +{
> +     event_trace_memsetup();
> +     init_ftrace_syscalls();
> +     event_trace_enable();
> +}
> +
>  fs_initcall(event_trace_init);
> 
>  #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
> index a72f3d8d813e..ec239771c175 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
> @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ unsigned long __init __weak arch_syscall_addr(int nr)
>       return (unsigned long)sys_call_table[nr];
>  }
> 
> -static int __init init_ftrace_syscalls(void)
> +void __init init_ftrace_syscalls(void)
>  {
>       struct syscall_metadata *meta;
>       unsigned long addr;
> @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ static int __init init_ftrace_syscalls(void)
>                                   GFP_KERNEL);
>       if (!syscalls_metadata) {
>               WARN_ON(1);
> -             return -ENOMEM;
> +             return;
>       }
> 
>       for (i = 0; i < NR_syscalls; i++) {
> @@ -536,10 +536,7 @@ static int __init init_ftrace_syscalls(void)
>               meta->syscall_nr = i;
>               syscalls_metadata[i] = meta;
>       }
> -
> -     return 0;
>  }
> -early_initcall(init_ftrace_syscalls);
> 
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
> 
> -- 
> 2.1.3
> 
> 

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