Re: [for-next][PATCH 0/3] tracing: Trigger a warning on build if a tracepoint is defined but unused

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 07:02:24 +1000
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:

> But, really, these known warnings can just make it so much harder to
> notice new ones.

They all should be fixed. Note, this is not a compiler warning. It's a tool
that states "Your code is causing wasted memory to be allocate in the
running machine". If your tracepoint shows up in this list, then you should
fix it.

On an allyesconfig for x86_64:

warning: tracepoint 'kvm_iocsr' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'nfs4_rename' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'nfs4_renew' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'xfs_metadir_link' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'xfs_metadir_start_link' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'xrep_rtbitmap_load_word' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'xrep_rtbitmap_load_words' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'xrep_rtbitmap_load' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'xrep_nlinks_set_record' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'xrep_cow_free_staging' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'ocfs2_encode_fh_begin' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'ocfs2_duplicate_clusters_by_jbd' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'trans_restart_relock_key_cache_fill' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'zonefs_file_dio_append' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'edma_readb' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'edma_readw' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'host1x_syncpt_wait_check' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'host1x_channel_submit_complete' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'host1x_channel_release' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'host1x_channel_open' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'amdgpu_reset_reg_dumps' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'amdgpu_dm_atomic_state_template' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'xe_exec_queue_supress_resume' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'xe_vm_restart' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'xe_vma_userptr_rebind_exec' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'xe_vma_userptr_rebind_worker' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'xe_vma_flush' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'dpu_rm_reserve_intf' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'dpu_enc_atomic_check_flags' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'dpu_crtc_runtime_resume' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'dpu_enc_atomic_check' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'dpu_trace_counter' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'scsi_zone_wp_update' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'scsi_prepare_zone_append' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'ath12k_htt_rxdesc' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'ath12k_htt_ppdu_stats' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'ath12k_htt_pktlog' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'brcms_dpc' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'brcms_timer' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'mt_tx_status' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'ee_read' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdns3_mapped_request' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdns3_map_request' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdns3_stream_transfer_split_next_part' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdns3_stream_transfer_split' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdnsp_handle_cmd_flush_ep' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdnsp_setup_device' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdnsp_free_priv_device' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdnsp_defered_event' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdnsp_ep0_halted' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdns2_iso_out_ep_disable' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdns2_mapped_request' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdns2_map_request' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdns2_ep0_enqueue' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdns2_ep_queue' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdns2_ep0_set_config' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdns2_may_wakeup' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cdns2_lpm' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'ucsi_reset_ppm' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'ucsi_run_command' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'icm_send_mra' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'open_err_template' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'irdma_send_cm_event_no_node' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'hfi1_txq_xmit_stopped' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'hfi1_mmu_invalidate' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'rvt_mr_fmr_seg' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'camera_debug' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'camera_meminfo' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'rpc_socket_reset_connection' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'rxrpc_drop_ack' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cfg80211_return_u32' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cfg80211_return_uint' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'cfg80211_send_rx_auth' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'rdev_return_void_tx_rx' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'drv_offchannel_tx_cancel_wait' is unused.
warning: tracepoint 'tipc_node_dump' is unused.
warning: tracepoint '802154_new_scan_event' is unused.
warning: tracepoint '802154_drv_set_pan_coord' is unused.

Each one of those causes around 5K of wasted memory on your machine.

Most of them is because of some crazy config combinations the maintainer
has, as they are used, but for some reason an allyesconfig isn't the right
config option to enable them.

I'll push this branch up, and if it causes issues for you, I'll remove it.
But then, I'm not doing anymore work on fixing this.

-- Steve