From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

There are a few generic events that may only be used by modules. They are
defined and then set with EXPORT_TRACEPOINT*(). Mark events that are
exported as being used, even though they still waste memory in the kernel
proper.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 include/linux/tracepoint.h | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
index 1e53d3626c78..8a56f3278b1b 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
@@ -227,8 +227,8 @@ static inline struct tracepoint *tracepoint_ptr_deref(tracepoint_ptr_t *p)
  * defined tracepoints are used. It is discarded after the build.
  */
 # define TRACEPOINT_CHECK(name)						\
-	static const char __used __section("__tracepoint_check") __trace_check[] = \
-		#name;
+	static const char __used __section("__tracepoint_check")	\
+	__trace_check_##name[] = #name;
 
 /*
  * Make sure the alignment of the structure in the __tracepoints section will
@@ -382,10 +382,12 @@ static inline struct tracepoint *tracepoint_ptr_deref(tracepoint_ptr_t *p)
 	__DEFINE_TRACE_EXT(_name, NULL, PARAMS(_proto), PARAMS(_args));
 
 #define EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL_GPL(name)				\
+	TRACEPOINT_CHECK(name)						\
 	EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__tracepoint_##name);				\
 	EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__traceiter_##name);				\
 	EXPORT_STATIC_CALL_GPL(tp_func_##name)
 #define EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(name)					\
+	TRACEPOINT_CHECK(name)						\
 	EXPORT_SYMBOL(__tracepoint_##name);				\
 	EXPORT_SYMBOL(__traceiter_##name);				\
 	EXPORT_STATIC_CALL(tp_func_##name)
-- 
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