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    tracing: Do not try to recreated toplevel set_ftrace_* files · 5d6c97c5
    Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) authored
    
    
    With the restructing of the function tracer working with instances, the
    "top level" buffer is a bit special, as the function tracing is mapped
    to the same set of filters. This is done by using a "global_ops" descriptor
    and having the "set_ftrace_filter" and "set_ftrace_notrace" map to it.
    
    When an instance is created, it creates the same files but its for the
    local instance and not the global_ops.
    
    The issues is that the local instance creation shares some code with
    the global instance one and we end up trying to create th top level
    "set_ftrace_*" files twice, and on boot up, we get an error like this:
    
     Could not create debugfs 'set_ftrace_filter' entry
     Could not create debugfs 'set_ftrace_notrace' entry
    
    The reason they failed to be created was because they were created
    twice, and the second time gives this error as you can not create the
    same file twice.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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