tracing: Init current_trace to nop_trace and remove NULL checks

On early boot up, when the ftrace ring buffer is initialized, the
static variable current_trace is initialized to &nop_trace.
Before this initialization, current_trace is NULL and will never
become NULL again. It is always reassigned to a ftrace tracer.

Several places check if current_trace is NULL before it uses
it, and this check is frivolous, because at the point in time
when the checks are made the only way current_trace could be
NULL is if ftrace failed its allocations at boot up, and the
paths to these locations would probably not be possible.

By initializing current_trace to &nop_trace where it is declared,
current_trace will never be NULL, and we can remove all these
checks of current_trace being NULL which never needed to be
checked in the first place.

Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 70dce64b9ecf..5d520b7bb4c5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ static unsigned long		trace_buf_size = TRACE_BUF_SIZE_DEFAULT;
 static struct tracer            *trace_types __read_mostly;
 
 /* current_trace points to the tracer that is currently active */
-static struct tracer            *current_trace __read_mostly;
+static struct tracer            *current_trace __read_mostly = &nop_trace;
 
 /*
  * trace_types_lock is used to protect the trace_types list.
@@ -2100,8 +2100,7 @@ print_trace_header(struct seq_file *m, struct trace_iterator *iter)
         unsigned long total;
         const char *name = "preemption";
 
-        if (type)
-                name = type->name;
+        name = type->name;
 
         get_total_entries(tr, &total, &entries);
 
@@ -2477,13 +2476,12 @@ __tracing_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, bool snapshot)
         if (!iter->trace)
                 goto fail;
 
-        if (current_trace)
-                *iter->trace = *current_trace;
+        *iter->trace = *current_trace;
 
         if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&iter->started, GFP_KERNEL))
                 goto fail;
 
-        if ((current_trace && current_trace->print_max) || snapshot)
+        if (current_trace->print_max || snapshot)
                 iter->tr = &max_tr;
         else
                 iter->tr = &global_trace;
@@ -3037,10 +3035,7 @@ tracing_set_trace_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
         int r;
 
         mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
-        if (current_trace)
-                r = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", current_trace->name);
-        else
-                r = sprintf(buf, "\n");
+        r = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", current_trace->name);
         mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
 
         return simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, cnt, ppos, buf, r);
@@ -3231,10 +3226,10 @@ static int tracing_set_tracer(const char *buf)
                 goto out;
 
         trace_branch_disable();
-        if (current_trace && current_trace->reset)
+        if (current_trace->reset)
                 current_trace->reset(tr);
 
-        had_max_tr = current_trace && current_trace->allocated_snapshot;
+        had_max_tr = current_trace->allocated_snapshot;
         current_trace = &nop_trace;
 
         if (had_max_tr && !t->use_max_tr) {
@@ -3373,8 +3368,7 @@ static int tracing_open_pipe(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
                 ret = -ENOMEM;
                 goto fail;
         }
-        if (current_trace)
-                *iter->trace = *current_trace;
+        *iter->trace = *current_trace;
 
         if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&iter->started, GFP_KERNEL)) {
                 ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -3525,7 +3519,7 @@ tracing_read_pipe(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
 
         /* copy the tracer to avoid using a global lock all around */
         mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
-        if (unlikely(current_trace && iter->trace->name != current_trace->name))
+        if (unlikely(iter->trace->name != current_trace->name))
                 *iter->trace = *current_trace;
         mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
 
@@ -3691,7 +3685,7 @@ static ssize_t tracing_splice_read_pipe(struct file *filp,
 
         /* copy the tracer to avoid using a global lock all around */
         mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
-        if (unlikely(current_trace && iter->trace->name != current_trace->name))
+        if (unlikely(iter->trace->name != current_trace->name))
                 *iter->trace = *current_trace;
         mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
 
@@ -4115,7 +4109,7 @@ tracing_snapshot_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt,
 
         mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
 
-        if (current_trace && current_trace->use_max_tr) {
+        if (current_trace->use_max_tr) {
                 ret = -EBUSY;
                 goto out;
         }
@@ -5299,7 +5293,7 @@ __init static int tracer_alloc_buffers(void)
         init_irq_work(&trace_work_wakeup, trace_wake_up);
 
         register_tracer(&nop_trace);
-        current_trace = &nop_trace;
+
         /* All seems OK, enable tracing */
         tracing_disabled = 0;