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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com,
	hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com, lethal@linux-sh.org,
	roland@redhat.com, vapier@gentoo.org,
	Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: Introduce coredump parameter structure
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:50:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091202095012.GD22654@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B15B4ED.8010209@redhat.com>


* Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:41:19 -0500
> >Masami Hiramatsu<mhiramat@redhat.com>  wrote:
> >
> >>Introduce coredump parameter data structure (struct coredump_params)
> >>for simplifying binfmt->core_dump() arguments.
> >>
> >>Changes in v2:
> >>    - Don't remove DUMP_WRITE() macro.
> >
> >What is the reason for this change?
> >
> >Please always include both the "what" and the "why" in changelog text.
> 
> I see.

I think Andrew wanted to see a longer explanation about precisely what 
we need for these tracepoints and what the various specific usecases are 
to utilize it.

I.e. a basic cost/benefit analysis is needed. By looking at the patch we 
can see the cost - but you have to counter-balance that with enough 
stuff in the 'benefits' column of the equation.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-02  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200911202212.nAKMCF2v012068@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-26  8:53 ` + binfmt-introduce-coredump-parameter-structure.patch added to -mm tree KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-11-26 15:50   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-26 16:51     ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-11-29  3:59       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-29  4:39       ` [PATCH v2] mm: Introduce coredump parameter structure Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-29  4:41       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-29 15:10         ` [PATCH][RFC] tracepoint: signal coredump (Re: [PATCH v2] mm: Introduce coredump parameter structure) Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-02 20:46           ` [PATCH v2] [RFC] tracepoint: Add signal coredump tracepoint Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-03 10:39             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-03 11:32               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-05  7:16                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-07 17:19                   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-05  7:18             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-12-07 15:25               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-08  1:51                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-12-08 20:40                   ` [PATCH v3] " Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-09  5:34                     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-12-09 16:07                       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-09 16:16                         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-09 20:38                           ` [PATCH v4] " Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-10  0:09                             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-12-02  0:18         ` [PATCH v2] mm: Introduce coredump parameter structure Andrew Morton
2009-12-02  0:27           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-12-02  0:29           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-02  9:50             ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-12-02 18:07               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-12-02  0:41           ` [PATCH v2] [RESEND] " Masami Hiramatsu

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