tracing/ftrace: change the type of the init() callback

Impact: extend the ->init() method with the ability to fail

This bring a way to know if the initialization of a tracer successed.
A tracer must return 0 on success and a traditional error (ie:
-ENOMEM) if it fails.

If a tracer fails to init, it is free to print a detailed warn. The
tracing api will not and switch to a new tracer will just return the
error from the init callback.

Note: this will be used for the return tracer.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index 790ea8c0e1f..cdbd5cc22be 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -264,7 +264,8 @@ enum print_line_t {
  */
 struct tracer {
 	const char		*name;
-	void			(*init)(struct trace_array *tr);
+	/* Your tracer should raise a warning if init fails */
+	int			(*init)(struct trace_array *tr);
 	void			(*reset)(struct trace_array *tr);
 	void			(*start)(struct trace_array *tr);
 	void			(*stop)(struct trace_array *tr);