Merge tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release has no new tracing features, just clean ups, minor fixes
  and small optimizations"

* tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (25 commits)
  tracing: Remove outdated ring buffer comment
  tracing/probes: Fix a warning message to show correct maximum length
  tracing: Fix return value check in trace_benchmark_reg()
  tracing: Use modern function declaration
  jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key
  tracing/probe: Show subsystem name in messages
  tracing/hwlat: Update old comment about migration
  timers: Make flags output in the timer_start tracepoint useful
  tracing: Have traceprobe_probes_write() not access userspace unnecessarily
  tracing: Have COMM event filter key be treated as a string
  ftrace: Have set_graph_function handle multiple functions in one write
  ftrace: Do not hold references of ftrace_graph_{notrace_}hash out of graph_lock
  tracing: Reset parser->buffer to allow multiple "puts"
  ftrace: Have set_graph_functions handle write with RDWR
  ftrace: Reset fgd->hash in ftrace_graph_write()
  ftrace: Replace (void *)1 with a meaningful macro name FTRACE_GRAPH_EMPTY
  ftrace: Create a slight optimization on searching the ftrace_hash
  tracing: Add ftrace_hash_key() helper function
  ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables
  ftrace: Expose ftrace_hash_empty and ftrace_lookup_ip
  ...

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 310f0ea0d1a2..707445ceb7ef 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -260,16 +260,8 @@ unsigned long long ns2usecs(u64 nsec)
 	TRACE_ITER_EVENT_FORK
 
 /*
- * The global_trace is the descriptor that holds the tracing
- * buffers for the live tracing. For each CPU, it contains
- * a link list of pages that will store trace entries. The
- * page descriptor of the pages in the memory is used to hold
- * the link list by linking the lru item in the page descriptor
- * to each of the pages in the buffer per CPU.
- *
- * For each active CPU there is a data field that holds the
- * pages for the buffer for that CPU. Each CPU has the same number
- * of pages allocated for its buffer.
+ * The global_trace is the descriptor that holds the top-level tracing
+ * buffers for the live tracing.
  */
 static struct trace_array global_trace = {
 	.trace_flags = TRACE_DEFAULT_FLAGS,
@@ -1193,6 +1185,7 @@ int trace_parser_get_init(struct trace_parser *parser, int size)
 void trace_parser_put(struct trace_parser *parser)
 {
 	kfree(parser->buffer);
+	parser->buffer = NULL;
 }
 
 /*