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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Joel Fernandes" <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	"Qais Yousef" <qais.yousef@arm.com>,
	"Valentin Schneider" <valentin.schneider@arm.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
	"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
	"Jirka Hladký" <jhladky@redhat.com>,
	"Jiří Vozár" <jvozar@redhat.com>, "X86 ML" <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched/debug: add sched_update_nr_running tracepoint
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 10:13:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190905081310.GA46285@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAADnVQJFXq0n1J+vFMwhNgGNBYXK+EsFaE_Zebp84wMOLN8TNA@mail.gmail.com>


* Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 10:47 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 08:51:21AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > > Anything in tracing can be deleted.
> > > Tracing is about debugging and introspection.
> > > When underlying kernel code changes the introspection points change as well.
> >
> > Right; except when it breaks widely used tools; like say powertop. Been
> > there, done that.
> 
> powertop was a lesson learned, but it's not a relevant example anymore.
> There are more widely used tools today. Like bcc tools.
> And bpftrace is quickly gaining momentum and large user base.
> bcc tools did break already several times and people fixed them.

Are these tools using libtraceevents?

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-05  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-03 15:43 [PATCH 0/2] sched/debug: add sched_update_nr_running tracepoint Radim Krčmář
2019-09-03 15:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/mm/tlb: include tracepoints from tlb.c instead of mmu_context.h Radim Krčmář
2019-09-03 15:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] sched/debug: add sched_update_nr_running tracepoint Radim Krčmář
2019-09-03 16:05   ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-04  4:23     ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-04  8:14       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-04 10:52         ` Qais Yousef
2019-09-04 13:11         ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-04 15:26           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-09-04 15:33             ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-04 15:37               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-09-04 15:41                 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-04 10:43       ` Qais Yousef
2019-09-04 13:06         ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-04 14:20           ` Qais Yousef
2019-09-04 14:41             ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-04 14:57               ` Qais Yousef
2019-09-04 15:46                 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-04 15:25           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-09-04 15:40             ` Joel Fernandes
2019-09-04 15:51               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-09-04 17:47                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-04 17:53                   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-09-05  8:13                     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2019-09-05 16:49                       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-09-04  6:55     ` chengjian (D)
2019-09-04 13:13   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-04 13:21     ` Valentin Schneider
2019-09-04 14:37   ` Qais Yousef
2019-09-04 17:48     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-09 10:59       ` Qais Yousef

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