From d840f718d28715a9833c1a8f46c2493ff3fd219b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 18:38:47 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Init current_trace to nop_trace and remove NULL checks On early boot up, when the ftrace ring buffer is initialized, the static variable current_trace is initialized to &nop_trace. Before this initialization, current_trace is NULL and will never become NULL again. It is always reassigned to a ftrace tracer. Several places check if current_trace is NULL before it uses it, and this check is frivolous, because at the point in time when the checks are made the only way current_trace could be NULL is if ftrace failed its allocations at boot up, and the paths to these locations would probably not be possible. By initializing current_trace to &nop_trace where it is declared, current_trace will never be NULL, and we can remove all these checks of current_trace being NULL which never needed to be checked in the first place. Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: Hiraku Toyooka Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- Reading git-format-patch failed