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Re: [RFC] Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] tracing/syscalls: Rename variable 'nr' to '__syscall_nr'

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Em Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 04:13:57PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra escreveu:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:57:13AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> 
> > Ingo, Peter, have you guys followed this case?
> > 
> > Summary: Some tracepoint have multiple fields with the same name, 'nr',
> >          the first one is a unique syscall ID, the other is a syscall
> >          argument:
> 
> I'm all for pushing the limits on tracepoint ABI. I'm all for making it
> less rigid. So if we can get away with changing this under the promise
> of helping fixup fallout, I'm all for it.
> 
> That means we can always just change tracepoints, and they're not really
> ABI at all.

I'll take that as an Acked-by, and will apply Taeung/Steven's patch for
the kernel + the builtin-trace.c change, Ok everybody?

- Arnaldo

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[PATCH v3 1/2] tracing/syscalls: Rename variable 'nr' to '__syscall_nr' Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2016-02-26 14:20 +0100
  [RFC] Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] tracing/syscalls: Rename variable 'nr' to  '__syscall_nr' Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-02-26 15:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC] Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] tracing/syscalls: Rename variable 'nr'  to '__syscall_nr' Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-02-26 19:30 +0100
      Re: [RFC] Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] tracing/syscalls: Rename variable 'nr'  to '__syscall_nr' Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-02-26 20:10 +0100
      Re: [RFC] Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] tracing/syscalls: Rename variable 'nr'  to '__syscall_nr' Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2016-02-27 17:20 +0100
        Re: [RFC] Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] tracing/syscalls: Rename variable 'nr'  to '__syscall_nr' Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-02-27 19:40 +0100
          Re: [RFC] Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] tracing/syscalls: Rename variable 'nr'  to '__syscall_nr' Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> - 2016-02-28 08:50 +0100
    Re: [RFC] Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] tracing/syscalls: Rename variable 'nr'  to '__syscall_nr' Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-02-27 16:20 +0100
      Re: [RFC] Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] tracing/syscalls: Rename variable 'nr'  to '__syscall_nr' Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-02-29 15:30 +0100

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