RE: [PATCH 3/6] pstore: Add persistent function tracing

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 22:19 +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:

> Binary makes sense too - but I'll stick with my comment that a different
> kernel must be able to do the decode. Or we need to spell out clearly
> that you must have the same, or compatible kernel booted to make any
> sense of the saved ftrace record.

I 100% agree here. I haven't looked at how the data gets stored, but it
should definitely be consistent across kernels.

Maybe store metadata in the persistent storage that explains how to
parse the binary data? Similar to /debug/tracing/events/ftrace/function/format
is done.


-- Steve


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