Merge tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release has no new tracing features, just clean ups, minor fixes
  and small optimizations"

* tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (25 commits)
  tracing: Remove outdated ring buffer comment
  tracing/probes: Fix a warning message to show correct maximum length
  tracing: Fix return value check in trace_benchmark_reg()
  tracing: Use modern function declaration
  jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key
  tracing/probe: Show subsystem name in messages
  tracing/hwlat: Update old comment about migration
  timers: Make flags output in the timer_start tracepoint useful
  tracing: Have traceprobe_probes_write() not access userspace unnecessarily
  tracing: Have COMM event filter key be treated as a string
  ftrace: Have set_graph_function handle multiple functions in one write
  ftrace: Do not hold references of ftrace_graph_{notrace_}hash out of graph_lock
  tracing: Reset parser->buffer to allow multiple "puts"
  ftrace: Have set_graph_functions handle write with RDWR
  ftrace: Reset fgd->hash in ftrace_graph_write()
  ftrace: Replace (void *)1 with a meaningful macro name FTRACE_GRAPH_EMPTY
  ftrace: Create a slight optimization on searching the ftrace_hash
  tracing: Add ftrace_hash_key() helper function
  ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables
  ftrace: Expose ftrace_hash_empty and ftrace_lookup_ip
  ...

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c b/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c
index e3b488825ae3..e49fbe901cfc 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c
@@ -175,9 +175,9 @@ int trace_benchmark_reg(void)
 
 	bm_event_thread = kthread_run(benchmark_event_kthread,
 				      NULL, "event_benchmark");
-	if (!bm_event_thread) {
+	if (IS_ERR(bm_event_thread)) {
 		pr_warning("trace benchmark failed to create kernel thread\n");
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return PTR_ERR(bm_event_thread);
 	}
 
 	return 0;