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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] tracing/syscalls: Have ia32 compat syscalls show raw format
On 02/12/2013 10:42 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> And currently the output is just plain broken. This isn't a hack. You
> should have seen my first attempt. Now THAT was a hack! My first attempt
> was extremely intrusive, and required a lot of arch changes. But then I
> realized it was too much, and found that I could do the same thing
> pretty much completely contained within just the tracing code itself.
>
> I know you feel that the syscall tracing is broken/hack/whatever. But it
> exists as of today, and yes, there's lots of users out there depending
> on it.
>

I am getting extremely frustrated with this cycle:

1. "We should have done <X> but we did <Y> because <X> was too
hard/required arch changes/..."
2. "Well, <Y> is broken, but people rely on it. We should have done
<X> but now it is too hard/breaks legacy/... so let's do <Z>..."
3. Lather, rinse, repeat.

The whole system with trace metadata seems to be broken at the core,
*exactly* because it intercepts at a different place than the one which
has a well-defined ABI and every hack, kluge and patch which doesn't fix
that fundamental design error will just make it worse and just kicks the
can further down the road.

-hpa





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