Re: [RFC PATCH v3 4/6] sched, tracing: reorganize fields of switch event struct

[Ze Gao]

Oops, I thought sending this series for RFC is the "effort" you mean
to audit the users :/

Correct me if I'm making stupid moves here and enlighten me what
I should do furthermore to audit the users.

Thanks,
Ze

On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 7:47 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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.