linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/7] tracing: timer: Add deferrable flag to timer

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Date:	Sun, 24 May 2015 08:20:43 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Badhri Jagan Sridharan <badhri@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] tracing: timer: Add deferrable flag to timer_start


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:

> > [...] So the field size is available for the tool. If the tool 
> > blindly applies the format string, it's hardly a fault of the 
> > kernel. And there is no point to bloat 32bit tracing with 64bit 
> > entries just because some random tool might be stupid.
> 
> Yeah, in a perfect world and so we could define arbitrarily complex 
> interfaces and expect tooling to follow it.

OTOH, on a second thought, libtraceevent handles this correctly, so 
the chance for tooling to get this wrong is much smaller than for 
other ABIs.

Plus the advantages on 32-bit systems you mentioned are real as well - 
so I concur with you.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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