Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] [PATCH 1/5] events: Add EVENT_FS the event filesystem

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Nov 18 2010 - 04:43:21 EST


On 11/17/2010 08:12 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
> I still say no to stable tracepoints in modules. Once you open that
> door, everyone will have it.
>
> But, that doesn't mean that a raw traepoint can't be stable. If the
> maintainer of that tracepoint states it is stable, then by all means,
> let tools use it.

I'd really like to hear Avi's thoughts on this.

Steven's scheme is fine with me. (kvm tracepoints are more or less stable, but all tools so far read the tracepoint definitions dynamically, and can cope with tracepoints being added/changed/removed).

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