From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761280Ab2EQIFB (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2012 04:05:01 -0400 Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:61652 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761318Ab2EQIEq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2012 04:04:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 10:04:33 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Linus Torvalds , Arjan van de Ven , LKML , Ingo Molnar , Frederic Weisbecker , David Sharp , Vaibhav Nagarnaik , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] tracing: Remove useless 4 bytes of padding from every event Message-ID: <20120517080433.GB17419@gmail.com> References: <1337175871.6724.46.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <4FB401B2.1010906@linux.intel.com> <1337198622.6724.83.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1337198622.6724.83.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Ok. Sadly, my actual laptop (which is where I've used it) > > runs F17 these days, since F14 can't handle the SNB > > graphics. So I'd actually notice. > > > > Steven is foiled again. > > /me curses! That damn rascal Linus! Binary compatibility's a bitch! But yeah, since this is instrumentation, the rules are somewhat relaxed to current widespread installations of tools, because few people are running old tools on old kernels to produce new code against new kernels, right? Thanks, Ingo