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tracepoint: Do not waste memory on mods with no tracepoints

No reason to allocate tp_module structures for modules that have no
tracepoints. This just wastes memory.

Fixes: b75ef8b44b1c "Tracepoint: Dissociate from module mutex"
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 11 years ago
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      kernel/tracepoint.c

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kernel/tracepoint.c

@@ -636,6 +636,9 @@ static int tracepoint_module_coming(struct module *mod)
 	struct tp_module *tp_mod, *iter;
 	int ret = 0;
 
+	if (!mod->num_tracepoints)
+		return 0;
+
 	/*
 	 * We skip modules that taint the kernel, especially those with different
 	 * module headers (for forced load), to make sure we don't cause a crash.
@@ -679,6 +682,9 @@ static int tracepoint_module_going(struct module *mod)
 {
 	struct tp_module *pos;
 
+	if (!mod->num_tracepoints)
+		return 0;
+
 	mutex_lock(&tracepoints_mutex);
 	tracepoint_update_probe_range(mod->tracepoints_ptrs,
 		mod->tracepoints_ptrs + mod->num_tracepoints);