Re: [PATCH 0/2] tracing: make signal tracepoints more useful

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 18:45 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> Obviously this is the user visible change. But personally I do
> agree with Seiji who requested this feature. Currently
> trace_signal_generate() just records the fact that __send_signal()
> was called, you can't know whether the signal was actually sent
> or not.

Adding more to a tracepoint is never an issue, even without a library to
parse the data correctly (which we still need in the distros). Thus this
change should have no issues.

-- Steve


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