* Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/