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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] tracing: make signal tracepoints more useful
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On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 16:03 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> > 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.
>
> If only I knew. How can we investigate this? Hopefully nothing
> relies on the old tracepoint, but who knows.

I remember Linus saying that we break ABI all the time. It's when
someone complains about it that we revert the breakage.

The chances that an app is using this tracepoint is slim. The chances
that an app is using this tracepoint *and* requires the data structure
size to remain the same is miniscule.

>
> OK. So we should add the new tracepoint. Looks a bit ugly, but
> I understand your concerns.

And it can bloat the kernel. Each tracepoint can add up to 5K in size.
I'm still working on fixing that.

-- Steve




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