提交 a123c52b 编写于 作者: S Steven Rostedt

tracing: fix comments about trace buffer resizing

Impact: cleanup

Some of the comments about the trace buffer resizing is gobbledygook.
And I wonder why people question if I'm a native English speaker.

This patch makes the comments make a bit more sense.
Reported-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
上级 51b643b4
......@@ -2336,7 +2336,8 @@ static int tracing_resize_ring_buffer(unsigned long size)
/*
* If kernel or user changes the size of the ring buffer
* it get completed.
* we use the size that was given, and we can forget about
* expanding it later.
*/
ring_buffer_expanded = 1;
......@@ -2351,8 +2352,20 @@ static int tracing_resize_ring_buffer(unsigned long size)
r = ring_buffer_resize(global_trace.buffer,
global_trace.entries);
if (r < 0) {
/* AARGH! We are left with different
* size max buffer!!!! */
/*
* AARGH! We are left with different
* size max buffer!!!!
* The max buffer is our "snapshot" buffer.
* When a tracer needs a snapshot (one of the
* latency tracers), it swaps the max buffer
* with the saved snap shot. We succeeded to
* update the size of the main buffer, but failed to
* update the size of the max buffer. But when we tried
* to reset the main buffer to the original size, we
* failed there too. This is very unlikely to
* happen, but if it does, warn and kill all
* tracing.
*/
WARN_ON(1);
tracing_disabled = 1;
}
......
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