lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2012]   [Jan]   [16]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] tracing: make signal tracepoints more useful

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 08:45 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > Looks good to me at a first (quick) sight, except this bit
> > which changes the ABI:
> >
> > > > - TP_printk("sig=%d errno=%d code=%d comm=%s pid=%d",
> > > > + TP_printk("sig=%d errno=%d code=%d comm=%s pid=%d grp=%d res=%d",
> >
> > That's not how we change tracepoints generally - we add a new
> > one and eventually phase out the old one. Which apps/tools rely
> > on the old tracepoint? If it's exactly zero apps then we might
> > be able to change it, but this needs to be investigated.
>
> But this tracepoint wasn't changed, it was added on to.
> There's a difference. Any tool that uses this (including
> something like powertop) should be able to handle it. [...]

That's mostly true in theory - the question is, is it true in
practice?

Say if an app relies on the smaller data structure, it sure
might get surprised by the kernel writing a wider record ...

Thanks,

Ingo


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2012-01-16 13:57    [W:1.613 / U:2.708 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site