linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tracing, perf: add more power related events

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Message-ID: <1285181033.2275.1042.camel@laptop>
Date:	Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:43:53 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@...oldbits.com>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, arjan@...radead.org,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...prootsystems.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-trace-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing, perf: add more power related events

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:36 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > I still don't see why you need TRACE_EVENT_ABI for that, if its the same
> > name and the format can be extended you get the same results with what
> > we've got. Apps need to read/parse the format thing anyway.
> 
> Just a marker that these trace points are being used by apps.

I really don't see any additional value in that. Its not like we won't
change them if we have to.

> But then again, we present the fields in the data. The tools should use
> a parse library (which a generic one will soon be out too). This way, we
> don't need them at the "end" but the parsing tools could find the fields
> no matter where they are in the record. 

Right. They should use the full format specification.
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