From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Perf ABI (was: Re: [lttng-dev] [PATCH 09/11] sched: export task_prio to GPL modules)
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:46:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111225174613.GA12732@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111223181641.GA12681@Krystal>
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 01:16:41PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
> (note that ABI to control the tracer and ABI to transport data could
> share the same version numbering if the control tools and transport
> tools happen to reside in the same user-level packages)
Being able to control the tracer but then not being able to look at
the trace output is useless. So they might as well be the same
thing....
> - The trace data format
> - Both versioned _and_ self-described.
> Self-description of the event/field layout allows the same tools to
> understand traces gathered on different kernel versions, on different
> architectures, with different tracer configurations.
> Versioning on top of the self-described trace format allows changes
> to what the trace self-description can express.
So there are two ways to do this. One is to make changes be backwards
compatible, so that the trace data format only breaks if you use the
new feature; if it doesn't you encode things the old fashioned way.
The other way of doing things is to randomly break users whenever the
tracing developers decide to add some random new feature, regardless
of whether or not a partiuclar user finds that new feature to be
useful.
The first is acceptable. The second, IMHO, is not. Linus has said
quite strongly that WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE. Period.
Regards,
- Ted
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2011-12-01 21:41 ` [PATCH 01/11] mm: export vmalloc_sync_all symbol to GPL modules Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 21:41 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 21:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-01 21:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-01 22:13 ` Greg KH
2011-12-01 22:13 ` Greg KH
2011-12-01 22:19 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 22:19 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 22:41 ` Greg KH
2011-12-01 22:41 ` Greg KH
2011-12-01 22:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-01 22:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-01 23:00 ` Greg KH
2011-12-01 23:00 ` Greg KH
2011-12-01 21:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-01 21:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-01 21:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-01 21:41 ` [PATCH 03/11] fs/splice: export splice_to_pipe " Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-02 7:19 ` Jens Axboe
2011-12-02 12:32 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 21:41 ` [PATCH 09/11] sched: export task_prio " Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 21:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-01 22:04 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 22:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-01 22:15 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 22:36 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 23:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-02 13:51 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 23:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-01 23:18 ` Greg KH
2011-12-01 23:47 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 22:14 ` Greg KH
2011-12-01 22:20 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-01 23:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-12-01 23:17 ` Greg KH
2011-12-05 14:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-06 21:44 ` Greg KH
2011-12-08 5:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-08 23:27 ` Greg KH
2011-12-19 10:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-19 15:30 ` [lttng-dev] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-20 11:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-20 21:46 ` Frank Rowand
2011-12-23 10:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-21 18:47 ` Aaron Spear
2011-12-21 18:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-23 16:46 ` Perf ABI (was: Re: [lttng-dev] [PATCH 09/11] sched: export task_prio to GPL modules) Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-23 17:21 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-12-23 18:16 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-25 17:46 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2012-01-12 14:09 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-01-12 14:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-12 15:39 ` [lttng-dev] Perf ABI (was: " Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-01-12 15:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-12 15:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-12 16:27 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-01-12 16:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-01-12 20:00 ` Greg KH
2012-01-16 8:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-12-07 22:57 ` [PATCH 09/11] sched: export task_prio to GPL modules Mathieu Desnoyers
2011-12-08 5:40 ` Ingo Molnar
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