Re: [PATCH 4/7] tracing: timer: Add deferrable flag to timer_start

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > [...] So the field size is available for the tool. If the tool 
> > blindly applies the format string, it's hardly a fault of the 
> > kernel. And there is no point to bloat 32bit tracing with 64bit 
> > entries just because some random tool might be stupid.
> 
> Yeah, in a perfect world and so we could define arbitrarily complex 
> interfaces and expect tooling to follow it.

OTOH, on a second thought, libtraceevent handles this correctly, so 
the chance for tooling to get this wrong is much smaller than for 
other ABIs.

Plus the advantages on 32-bit systems you mentioned are real as well - 
so I concur with you.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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