From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756729Ab2AJS7p (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:59:45 -0500 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:54404 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756558Ab2AJS7o (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:59:44 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=I83ntacg c=1 sm=0 a=ZycB6UtQUfgMyuk2+PxD7w==:17 a=Rgy2dYdRdCwA:10 a=5SG0PmZfjMsA:10 a=Q9fys5e9bTEA:10 a=QHWksLyLfifrZNB3CiAA:9 a=PUjeQqilurYA:10 a=ZycB6UtQUfgMyuk2+PxD7w==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 74.67.80.29 Message-ID: <1326221981.7642.49.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] tracing: make signal tracepoints more useful From: Steven Rostedt To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Masami Hiramatsu , Seiji Aguchi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:59:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20120110174509.GA30802@redhat.com> References: <20120110174509.GA30802@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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