On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 10:54:15AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 09:05:50PM +0000, Weiny, Ira wrote: > > > Regardless, and more importantly, this is a totally different thing. > > eBPF sample _code_ is a long way from a tool which is dependent on > > this "ABI". > > There has been some general debate in the kernel community if > tracepoints are ABI or not ABI (like debugfs) and I don't know where > it ended up.. > > Core tracepoints are probably more likely to be ABI ones, I guess.. Tracepoints are valuable debug tool and declaring them as ABI will create strange situation where refactoring/improvements can be blocked simply because of those debug aids. ABI thing will effectively kill all additions of tracepoints to RDMA/core. Thanks > > Jason
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