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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 14:47:43 +0100
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: peter enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add slowpath enter/exit trace events
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On Thu 23-11-17 14:03:04, peter enderborg wrote:
> On 11/23/2017 01:47 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >
> > This might be true but the other POV is that the trace point with the
> > additional information is just too disruptive to the rest of the code
> > and it exposes too many implementation details.
> 
> From who do you want to hide details? Is this a security thing? I
> don't understand this  argument.  Tracefs is not part of uapi,
> right?

Linus would disagree https://lwn.net/Articles/737530/

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs