From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
"Feng(Eric) Liu" <eric.e.liu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] KVM-trace port to tracepoints
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:08:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48870329.2080401@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080723100314.GA2847@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:55:03AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
>> Andrew raised the whole point about trace_mark() generating an
>> user-visible interface and thus it should be stable, and I agree with
>> that.
>>
>
> I'm not sure why this comes up again and again, but it's utter bullshit.
> trace_mark does not generate any kind of user interface, just purely
> a kernel internal interface.
>
trace_mark() is implement kvmtrace, which is propagated to userspace.
So while trace_mark() itself is not a userspace interface, one of its
users is.
It's an unstable interface. But so is dmesg; that's the nature of tracing.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-23 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-17 15:57 [patch 0/4] Port KVM-trace to tracepoints Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-17 15:57 ` [patch 1/4] kvm move VMCS Encodings to system headers Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-17 15:57 ` [patch 2/4] kvm move VMCS read " Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-17 15:57 ` [patch 3/4] KVM move register read-write " Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-17 15:57 ` [patch 4/4] KVM-trace port to tracepoints Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-17 16:49 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-07-17 17:28 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-22 16:04 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-07-22 18:46 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-23 7:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-23 8:08 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-23 8:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-23 9:32 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-23 9:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-23 13:15 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-23 10:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-23 10:08 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-07-23 10:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-23 13:20 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-17 16:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-17 17:04 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-22 18:42 ` [patch 0/4] Port KVM-trace " Avi Kivity
2008-07-22 19:16 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-22 19:31 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-22 19:54 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-22 22:12 ` [patch 0/4] Port KVM-trace to tracepoints -> LTTng ? Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-27 10:11 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-28 0:54 ` [RFC] LTTng merge plan Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-29 16:18 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-29 17:01 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
[not found] ` <20080729211543.GB17097@redhat.com>
2008-07-29 22:41 ` module-placed markers/tracepoints Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-29 23:01 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-29 23:19 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-30 1:40 ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-30 2:27 ` [PATCH] Module : call synchronize_sched() between module exit() and free Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-30 3:04 ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-30 4:05 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-30 11:40 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-30 14:09 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-31 0:54 ` Rusty Russell
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