Re: [RFC PATCH v3 4/6] sched, tracing: reorganize fields of switch event struct
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2023-08-01 11:47:22
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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2023-08-01 11:47:22
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 05:01:22PM +0800, Ze Gao wrote:
Report priorities in 'short' and prev_state in 'int' to save some buffer space. And also reorder the fields so that we take struct alignment into consideration to make the record compact. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
I don't see a single line describing the effort you've done to audit consumers of this tracepoint. *IF* you're wanting to break this tracepoint ABI, because seriously that's what it is, then you get to invest the time and effort to audit the users.