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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, <trivial@kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/22] xfs: %pF is only for function pointers
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:58:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1441051104.4966.41.camel@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150831154521.1c9353b6@gandalf.local.home>

On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 15:45 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:24:25 -0500
> Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> wrote:
>  
> > > Can you please look into why this change broke the tracing output
> > > on x86-64 - if there is no obvious/easy fix for it, then I'm simply
> > > going to revert it because having the tracing work correctly on
> > > x86-64 is far more important to us than ppc64 or ia64....
> > 
> > It looks like the cause is that TP_printk() is not really printk() -- it 
> > actually passes the format to userspace which has its own, not 100% 
> > compatible implementation pretty_print() in tools/lib/traceevent/event-
> > parse.c.  %pf in that function behaves like %ps in the kernel, and %ps is 
> > absent.
> > 
> 
> We can fix that with adding %ps to the traceevent library.

I wasn't sure if this would be considered a stable ABI issue, as it's not 
about the events themselves, but about the event mechanism.

-Scott


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-31 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-12  3:13 [PATCH 01/22] mm/memblock.c: %pF is only for function pointers Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 02/22] netfilter: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 03/22] sound: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 04/22] md/bcache: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 05/22] PM / AVS: SmartReflex: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12 18:09   ` Kevin Hilman
2015-03-12 18:14     ` Nishanth Menon
2015-03-12 18:16       ` Jiri Kosina
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 06/22] random: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 07/22] alpha: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 08/22] ARM: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12 19:51   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 09/22] blackfin: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 10/22] microblaze: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 11/22] powerpc/32: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 12/22] sparc: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12 18:47   ` Sam Ravnborg
2015-03-12 18:49     ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 18:54       ` Sam Ravnborg
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 13/22] x86: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 14/22] parisc: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12 12:11   ` James Bottomley
2015-03-12 14:43     ` John David Anglin
2015-03-12 16:14     ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 18:04       ` James Bottomley
2015-03-12 19:48         ` Aaro Koskinen
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 15/22] drm: " Scott Wood
2015-03-13  9:17   ` Daniel Vetter
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 16/22] mfd: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  9:03   ` Lee Jones
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 17/22] esp_scsi: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12 11:23   ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 18/22] usb: gadget: serial: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12  4:45   ` Felipe Balbi
2015-03-12  5:27     ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 15:38       ` Felipe Balbi
2015-03-12 12:36   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2015-03-12 16:43     ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 15:51   ` Fabio Estevam
2015-03-12 16:40     ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12 16:43       ` Fabio Estevam
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 19/22] jfs: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12 14:16   ` [Jfs-discussion] " Dave Kleikamp
2015-03-12 16:09     ` Scott Wood
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 20/22] pstore: " Scott Wood
2015-06-16 22:02   ` Kees Cook
2015-06-16 22:37     ` Anton Vorontsov
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 21/22] xfs: " Scott Wood
2015-08-31  8:06   ` Dave Chinner
2015-08-31 19:24     ` Scott Wood
2015-08-31 19:45       ` Steven Rostedt
2015-08-31 19:58         ` Scott Wood [this message]
2015-08-31 20:05           ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-12  3:13 ` [PATCH 22/22] tracing: " Scott Wood
2015-03-12 20:23   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-12 20:25     ` Scott Wood

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