[PATCH 1/8] ftrace: Replace uses of _ftrace_direct APIs with _ftrace_direct_multi

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 16:21:49 +0100
Florent Revest <revest at chromium.org> wrote:

> Actually, I'm not sure anymore if we should delete the !multi samples...
> 
> I realized that they are also used as part of the ftrace selftests in:
> - tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/direct/ftrace-direct.tc
> - tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/direct/kprobe-direct.tc
> 
> It does not really make sense to use the ftrace-direct-muti sample as
> a drop-in replacement for the ftrace-direct sample there since they
> don't really do the same thing so we would either need to change the
> test a bit or the multi sample.
> Also, we would still need to adapt the ftrace-direct-too sample since
> it has no multi equivalent and is required there.

Let's not delete the samples, and they do test slightly different use cases
(although the code may be somewhat the same). I rather still keep that test
coverage.

-- Steve