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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, paulus@samba.org,
	acme@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tzanussi@gmail.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, efault@gmx.de,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] tracing/events: Add 'signed' field to format files
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:05:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091006150510.GA5152@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tip-26a50744b21fff65bd754874072857bee8967f4d@git.kernel.org>

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 01:06:39PM +0000, tip-bot for Tom Zanussi wrote:
> Commit-ID:  26a50744b21fff65bd754874072857bee8967f4d
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/26a50744b21fff65bd754874072857bee8967f4d
> Author:     Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
> AuthorDate: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 01:09:50 -0500
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> CommitDate: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 15:04:45 +0200
> 
> tracing/events: Add 'signed' field to format files
> 
> The sign info used for filters in the kernel is also useful to
> applications that process the trace stream.  Add it to the format
> files and make it available to userspace.



This is something we could already find using the type of
the field.

Also I wonder if that breaks the format definition ABI. I mean:
event formats are not ABI, except for the TRACE_EVENT_ABI.
But concerning how we describe the format description, I
have doubts.

As an example, I don't know if this patch would break 2.6.32-rc1
(and then 2.6.32) based perf tools running on a future 2.6.33
kernel.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-06 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-06  6:09 [RFC][PATCH 0/9] perf trace: support for general-purpose scripting Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06  6:09 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/9] tracing/events: Add 'signed' field to format files Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06 13:06   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06 15:05     ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2009-10-07  4:30       ` Tom Zanussi
2009-10-07  1:06   ` [RFC][PATCH 1/9] " Steven Rostedt
2009-10-07  5:04     ` Tom Zanussi
2009-10-07 13:07       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-10-11  9:00         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-06  6:09 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/9] perf trace: Add subsystem string to struct event Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06 13:06   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06  6:09 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/9] perf trace: Add string/dynamic cases to format_flags Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06 13:07   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06  6:09 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/9] perf trace: Add trace scripting ops Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06  6:09 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/9] perf trace: Add Perl scripting support Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06 13:00   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-07  4:09     ` Tom Zanussi
2009-10-07 14:13       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-08  4:01         ` Tom Zanussi
2009-10-11  8:58           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-11 12:16             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-10-12  6:03               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-06  6:09 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/9] perf trace: Add scripting op for generating empty event handling scripts Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06  6:09 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/9] perf trace: Add FIELD_IS_FLAG/SYMBOLIC cases to format_flags Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06  6:09 ` [RFC][PATCH 8/9] perf trace: Add perf trace scripting support modules for Perl Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06 12:39   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-07  4:02     ` Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06 12:45   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-07  4:05     ` Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06  6:09 ` [RFC][PATCH 9/9] perf trace: Add throwaway timestamp sorting Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06  9:09 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/9] perf trace: support for general-purpose scripting Ingo Molnar
2009-10-06 13:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-06 13:53     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-07  4:01   ` Tom Zanussi
2009-10-06  9:40 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2009-10-06 12:54   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-06 13:09 ` Ingo Molnar

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