linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][BUG] tracer: Fails to work

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Message-ID: <20160128135733.GQ6356@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:57:33 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc:	rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][BUG] tracer: Fails to work

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 01:38:00PM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> Thoughts ?

So ideally dumping the trace data would not depend on any of that,
because I can break it all :-)

Not being able to access the trace data completely and utterly defeats
the purpose of having a tracer in the first place.