Re: PATCH [0/4] perf: clean-up of power events API

[Pierre Tardy <tardyp@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers
<mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [ Adding a few more CCs, since this discussion is about a tracepoint
>  userspace ABI policy, which is a topic of general interest. ]

To add a little more comment, this is not the first time that
tracepoints ABI changes. You can look at pytimechart sourcecode:
http://gitorious.org/pytimechart/pytimechart/blobs/master/timechart/ftrace.py

from 2.6.31 which is the first kernel I support,

sched_switch:  'task %s:%d [%d] ==> %s:%d [%d]',
changed to:
sched_switch:  'prev_comm=%s prev_pid=%d prev_prio=%d prev_state=%s
==> next_comm=%s next_pid=%d next_prio=%d',

workqueue_execution: 'thread=%s
func=%s\\+%s/%s','thread','func','func_offset','func_size'),
changed to:
workqueue_execution: 'thread=%s func=%s','thread','func'),


actually, over all the events pytimechart supports, only power traces
are stable...

Regards,
-- 
Pierre
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