Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: make signal tracepoints more useful

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 01/17, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Any tool that requests the signal trace event, and copies the
> full (and now larger) record it got in the ring-buffer, without
> expanding the target record's size accordingly will *BREAK*.
>
> I do not claim that tools will break in practice - i'm raising
> the *possibility* out of caution and i'm frustrated that you
> *STILL* don't understand how ABIs are maintained in Linux.

OK, but what if we rename the tracepoint?

IOW, add the new tracepoint and remove the old one. Of course,
this can confuse the users of the current "signal_generate", but
this is safe. b413d48a does this...

Or this is not allowed too?

Oleg.

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