It could still be kernel code doing the unpacking, just not at trace-time. This preserves the ability to use cat & grep, while still omitting the unpacking overhead during trace itself.
Posted Oct 3, 2008 23:43 UTC (Fri) by fuhchee (subscriber, #40059)
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> It could still be kernel code doing the unpacking, just not at trace-time.
If the kernel isn't going to host huge history buffers, then
conversions will in general have to be done essentially online,
probably deferred only a bit.