From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751545AbbJTOpF (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:45:05 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0085.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.85]:39031 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750868AbbJTOpD (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:45:03 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 726F737465647440676F6F646D69732E6F7267 X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,rostedt@goodmis.org,:::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:800:960:973:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1431:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1539:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2553:2559:2562:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3873:5007:6119:6120:6261:7875:7901:7903:8700:10004:10400:10848:10967:11232:11658:11914:12050:12517:12519:12663:12740:13069:13311:13357:21067:21080,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-HE-Tag: offer57_2bb52e7e70437 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1536 Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:44:59 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paolo Bonzini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, acme@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: update KVM plugin Message-ID: <20151020104459.7e7f7e77@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20151020143244.GG4400@redhat.com> References: <1443695293-31127-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <56181F25.2070402@redhat.com> <20151020143244.GG4400@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.12.0 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 12:32:44 -0200 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > > Ping? Arnaldo, ok to include this patch in my tree? > > Applying, I saw it before, but lost track, perhaps was waiting for > Steven Rostedt to chime in, but now I noticed he wasn't CCed, he is now. What happens if you run new perf on an older kernel. Is this new plugin going to be screwed up? Plugins should be backward compatible. Is the plugin even still needed? I'm looking at some of the kvm events and they seem to be mostly self sufficient. What ones need a plugin today? -- Steve