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Commit 1d18538e authored by Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar Steven Rostedt (VMware)
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tracing: Have dynamic events have a ref counter

As dynamic events are not created by modules, if something is attached to
one, calling "try_module_get()" on its "mod" field, is not going to keep
the dynamic event from going away.

Since dynamic events do not need the "mod" pointer of the event structure,
make a union out of it in order to save memory (there's one structure for
each of the thousand+ events in the kernel), and have any event with the
DYNAMIC flag set to use a ref counter instead.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20210813004448.51c7de69ce432d338f4d226b@kernel.org/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210817035027.174869074@goodmis.org



Suggested-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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