mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* [PATCH] trace: Remove outdated ring buffer comment
@ 2017-02-17  4:10 Joel Fernandes
  0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread
From: Joel Fernandes @ 2017-02-17  4:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Joel Fernandes, Steven Rostedt, Ingo Molnar

The comment about ring buffer's organization is outdated and the code sits
elsewhere, remove the comment.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 12 ++----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index d7449783987a..8691540139cf 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,
-- 
2.11.0.483.g087da7b7c-goog

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] only message in thread

only message in thread, other threads:[~2017-02-17  4:11 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: (only message) (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2017-02-17  4:10 [PATCH] trace: Remove outdated ring buffer comment Joel Fernandes

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox

Powered by JetHome