Commit b8e46d22 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.16-rc1-v2' of...

Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.16-rc1-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing cleanups and fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "This includes three patches from Oleg Nesterov.  The first is a fix to
  a race condition that happens between enabling/disabling syscall
  tracepoints and new process creations (the check to go into the ptrace
  path for a process can be set when it shouldn't, or not set when it
  should).  Not a major bug but one that should be fixed and even
  applied to stable.

  The other two patches are cleanup/fixes that are not that critical,
  but for an -rc1 release would be nice to have.  They both deal with
  syscall tracepoints.

  It also includes a patch to introduce a new macro for the
  TRACE_EVENT() format called __field_struct().  Originally, __field()
  was used to record any variable into a trace event, but with the
  addition of setting the "is signed" attribute, the check causes
  anything but a primitive variable to fail to compile.  That ...
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