linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] tracing: Remove useless 4 bytes of padding from every event

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2012 16:03:42 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	David Sharp <dsharp@...gle.com>,
	Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@...gle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] tracing: Remove useless 4 bytes of padding from
 every event

On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 12:51 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Arjan van de Ven
> <arjan@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > this is the one that will break
> 
> Oh, ok. So we need to wait at *least* for F16/F17 to upgrade. I assume
> that SuSE/Ubuntu are in the same boat.

Ah, so you just answered the email I sent while you sent this one. You
must be psychic. 

> 
> >> F14 (which I personally still use, since it doesn't have gnome3) is 1.13.
> >
> > this one is fine, it does not use perf events at all.
> 
> 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!



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