Re: [RFC] tracefs [LWN.net]

From:		Ingo Molnar <mingo-AT-elte.hu>
To:		Greg KH <greg-AT-kroah.com>
Subject:		Re: [RFC] tracefs
Date:		Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:32:37 +0200
Cc:		Steven Rostedt <rostedt-AT-goodmis.org>, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec-AT-gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo-AT-redhat.com>, linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx-AT-linutronix.de>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra-AT-chello.nl>
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* Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> At LinuxCon this year, Steven and I talked about moving the debugfs 
> usage in the tracing core to a stand-alone filesystem to give the 
> ability to start to lock down the api so that people an count on what 
> is going on in the tracing userspace interface.

What we want to move out initially (and i talked to Steve and Frederic 
about that a few weeks ago) is the event description bits - the format 
stuff in /debug/tracing/events/ - but definitely not all the other, 
rather messy and ad-hoc APIs.

_No way_ do we want to tie down the pretty-printing ftrace details as an 
ABI. We promised that when ftrace went upstream and all the details are 
way too messy to be exposed in an ABI alike matter (and yes, consider 
this a NAK Steve ;-).

We want a _very_ careful exporting of certain pieces of information that 
helps syscall-exposed perf events bits, and to improve the quality of 
interfaces while we do that.

	Ingo

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