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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