Re: [PATCH] tracing: Include PPIN in mce_record tracepoint

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Jan 24 2024 - 04:57:44 EST


On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 08:38:53PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Yes, rasdaemon uses libtraceevent (or a copy of it internally) that
> reads the format file to find fields. You can safely add fields to the
> middle of the event structure and the parsing will be just fine.

Should we worry about tools who consume the event "blindly", without the
lib?

I guess no until we break some use case and then we will have to revert.
At least this is what we've done in the past...

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